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Features Disc of the day
Felt
Forever Breathes The Lonely Word
(Creation, 1986)
The indie-est band ever’s big pop album.
This week is Indie Week on MOJO, and every Disc Of The Day will reflect that theme.
However many bands get rehabilitated, obscurity seems to be Felt’s fate. But people who like them really go to the races, as when Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch declared “Fuck The Smiths, fuck Orange Juice, Felt, Felt, Felt!” His ardour’s kept hot by the peculiar intensity of this West Midlands group and their singular leader Lawrence, and the opulent and symmetrical half-hour of Forever Breathes The Lonely Word was the most accessible album they made. With their guitar jangle and up-front organ playing courtesy of future Primal Screamer Martin Duffy, songs like Rain Of Crystal Spires and A Wave Crashed On Rocks seem to exist in a slip road just off Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone, softened by breathy harmonies and Lawrence’s gasping Lou Reed voice moaning words of enigma, cynicism and battered hope. Yes, it’s unfair that this album’s not better known, but where would the mystery be then? As Lawrence, a man who never knowingly lowers himself to rational behaviour, shrugs on All The People I Like Are Those That Are Dead (what a title), “Maybe… it’s better to be lost than to be found.”
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 03/02/2008
Further Listening
The Tyde – Twice (Rough Trade, 2003)
Belle & Sebastian – Tigermilk (Jeepster, 1999)
The House Of Love – The House Of Love (Creation, 1988)
What’s YOUR favourite indie album? Enlighten us below...
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two ,, different schools BRIT-INDIE ( Music influenced by a myriad of things,from post war working class culture to the poetry of Classic English Romanticists such as KEATS,BYRON and SHELLEY to European CAFE CULTURE to eccentric pastimes and much more
INDIE- USA ( More influenced by 60s PHSYCEDELIC POP,7Os
PUNK,collegiate communities,social disaffection,the forces of nature and much more ) It would appear,on the surface at least
that INDIE was vital more in AMERICA,helping to fight the Conservative traits that gripped mainstream American Rock Music.
What is in NO DOUBT, is that both Countries benefitted from
INDIE and it is the SINGLE biggest factor in their POP MUSICS continuing RICH History and development.
so much GREAT Music.
from AMERICA - SUICIDE " SUICIDE"
( Album BLAST FIRST
MUTE, og Red Star recordings )
From BRITIAN- BURIAL " UNTRUE"( Hyperdub Records/ CARGO RECORDS )
Both contain " VIRTUELY NONE " of the Influences Ive talked about.
Posted by ceri ad at 2:54 PM GMT 04/02/2008 Report Abuse
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RE: ceri ad Yesterdays comments were just practice until I can
use the message boards. My TOP 5 INDIE ALBUMS are
THE STONE ROSES - " THE STONE ROSES " ( Silvertone)
THE PIXIES - " SURFA ROSA ( 4 AD )
HUSKER DU - " FLIP YOUR WIG" ( SST )
THE SMITHS - " THE SMITHS ( Rough Trade )
R.E.M. " RECKONING " ( IRS )
IN NO PATICULAR ORDER
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aww, Felt just weren't that good. Unlistenably treble-y, one tune (okay, two), lyrics that were 30% as clever as he thought they were, too much fiddly guitar, boilerplate Dylan/Ferry vocals. They were as successful as they should have been.
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