Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
The Delgados
Universal Audio
(Chemikal Underground, 2005)
Gloomy Glasgow quartet’s “pop album”. So how come it sounds so sad?
Sunday picnics, family Christmases, bank holidays in coastal resorts; when we British reach for happiness it can sometimes be the bleakest thing in the world. Reeling from the Dave Fridmann-produced, excess melancholy of their dystopic 2002 epic Hate, The Delgados’ made an allegedly “positive” album – pop hooks, sweet melodies, vocal harmonies. Don’t you believe it. Like a cookie full of arsenic, Universal Audio’s indie sweetness conceals a dark, deathly heart. On such plaintive, minor chord beauties as Come Undone, Sink Or Swim and The City Consumes Us Emma Pollock and Alun Woodward’s blackly poetic lyrics weave miasmic worlds of front room crack-up and doubt, modern voices of angst whispering the internal dialogues of madness under cyclical rhythms of piano and guitar, drum stomp and keyboard stutter. The greatest of their five albums? Hard to say really; years later, the thing’s still burrowing its way into my soul.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 05/08/2008
Further Listening
The Delgados – The Great Eastern (Chemikal Underground, 2000)
Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene (City Slang, 2006)
Malcolm Middleton – Into The Woods (Chemikal Underground, 2005)
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