Artist: Slow Club
Title: Paradise
Label: Moshi Moshi
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 236kbit av.
Time: 01:02:26
Size: 111.03 mb
Rip Date: 2011-09-10
Str Date: 2011-09-12
DISC 1:
01. Two Cousins 3:50
02. If We're Still Alive 3:17
03. Never Look Back 4:30
04. Where I'm Waking 3:43
05. Hackney Marsh 3:52
06. Beginners 4:15
07. You, Earth Or Ash 4:27
08. Gold Mountain 3:23
09. The Dog 2:42
10. Horses Jumping 10:59
DISC 2:
01. Half Drunk 4:03
02. Palms 3:02
03. Two Cousins (Acoustic) 2:45
04. Never Look Back (Acoustic) 3:26
05. Two Cousins 1999 4:12
Release Notes:
Being a product of the age it was written, Slow Club's 2009 debut, Yeah
So, dealt with the all too familiar space between adolescence and the
oncoming storm of adulthood. A boy-girl duo who played a flower-adorned
chair live, they were the polar opposite of what was coming out of
post-Arctic Monkeys Sheffield. Slow Club were fun, cute, whimsical and
all manner of other words just shy of 'twee' – and they hate being
called twee.
Paradise, however, is where the duo grows up. Two years on, it stumbles
out of a trivial, self-indulgent teenage malaise (where sexual
adventure was priority for most) and carries itself with a sense of
perspective that only adulthood can give – a darker, more thoughtful
view of the world. For instance, on the poignant You, Earth or Ash, a
song about Rebecca Taylor's granddad, her melancholic vocals
(beautiful, as always) evoke an awareness of mortality for those around
her; singing "and I know, soon you'll go," her voice seemingly breaks
under the weight of premature grief. Whereas even love-wise (an
inspiration every band draws from) Slow Club's lyrical output is
glossed with a more mature and detached sense of sauce, with Taylor
crooning on Where I'm Waking: "I can see you looking at me / You got
the brains I've got the body".
Iing at me / You got
the brains I've got the body".
It's the latter, along with songs such as If We're Still Alive and The
Dog, that provides Paradise’s most frantic and poppy moments, with
producer Luke Smith (of the defunct Clor, and producer of Foals’ last
LP) firming up the band's penchant for ramshackle drums, rattling
guitars and startlingly impressive two-part harmonies; a
thrown-together machine that if, not held together properly, would
easily fall apart. Of course, that's not to say that, musically, this
record couldn't have been made by anyone else – it's not sonically
unique. Yet there's a charm here. A personality and identity that,
whilst subdued compared to their live shows, bleeds through the cracks
to make this album not only a snapshot of burgeoning adulthood, but
also of Slow Club's singularly impressive songwriting ability.
Limited Edition version which comes with a bonus CD of great extra
tracks, enjoy!
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