Same story with this CD as with Mahogany: it came as part of the Track & Field "lucky dip" that led me to order six unknown CDs for £12. It seemed a good idea at the time.
So once again I tear off the cellophane and remove the CD for the first time, loading it up on iTunes and relying on the Last.fm software to give me some context. This is what it told me (source):
Psychedelic popstars, homescience, deliver you a hazy cocktail of swirling hammond organs, rock guitars, munster drums, music hall pianos, seasame [sic] street basslines and pied piper vocals. brighton's finest have released records on damaged goods, pickled egg, fortuna pop!, low transit industries and currently reside with the 'mighty' track and field organisation.
…which made me wary: 'psychedelic' if grossly over-used; the lower case thing is so affected. After one listen, I was ready to write them off as indie-schmindie. But I thought they deserved one more listen, downstairs on the hi-fi. I found the arrangements interesting, and liked the bass and percussion sounds. I thought I might have misjudged them at first, but there wasn't enough in the songs to keep me engaged. And for an album that comes in under 35 minutes, it seemed to go on for a long time.
Two listens is still a horribly inadequate basis to make a judgment, but I've got hundreds of CDs to go, and they won't listen to themselves you know.
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