Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
Felt
Let The Snakes Crinkle Themselves To Death
(Creation, 1986)
More Dream Pop afterglow from Lawrence, British indie pop's foiled romantic.
While MOJO's Dream Pop CD salutes an earlier Felt - via Maurice Deebank's 1984 guitar étude, Sempiternal Darkness - there's an argument for this being the Brummie boho crew's ultimate reverie. Whilst a record of instrumentals, none over three minutes and most under two, was not quite what new label boss Alan McGee had in mind, this is typical bloody-mindedness from Felt-head Lawrence, making as ever a certain perverse sense in honouring these ace players - future Primal Screamer Martin Duffy on keys and Marco Thomas on bass augmenting Felt lifer Gary Ainge on drums - with a wordless showcase. Amid distant wave-noise, Ancient City Where I Lived is a snatch of limpid loveliness, with guitar from Lawrence like a Gaudi minaret, while Elektra artboss tribute Song For William S Harvey serves as a jaunty introduction to Duffy's rococo organ, Felt's lead instrument for the next several records, especially this one. More hallucinatory still, Voyage To Illumination is hazy and languid, like the first act of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, exemplifying Snakes...' quest to catch an instant of bliss in amber, or to grope for the disappearing fragments of a dream.
Eternal thanks to Deborah Dolce, who did me a tape of this in 1986, and was herself like the groovy, beret-wearing girl out of a Felt song.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 26/02/2010
Further Listening
Felt – Forever Breathes The Lonely Word (Creation, 1986)
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