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DEMO OF THE WEEK – Aug 4th 2005
SPIRITWO
– Okay so Foundling jumps right out and grabs us, it stops everyone – what’s
this? Who’s this? It made Tim cry with pleasure – tasting sweet and beautiful,
no one knows where this came from. Well we do, it arrived unexpectedly
in the post from Israel and she sounds kind of like PJ Harvey or an off
kilter Tori Amos and all tingly and that parpingly soft synth (whisper
this – I think I like this version of one of the more restrained Cardiacs
pieces of beauty even more than the original) I could walk with angels
but I’d rather walk with you - ghostly lady. Hang on though, there’s something
more in the spine-tingling air with the wind chimes and delicate majestic
splendour. Foundling may have grabbed us first but but but, all eight tracks
here are special and different and like those Dresden Dolls getting in
to the dark and body of light glitching tonight alone in the dark to give
you the spooks. Dresden Dolls, Lori Anderson, PJ Harvey, Sea Nymphs/Mr
& Mrs Smith and video films you took out ten times before – and like
nothing you heard before either. Noir pop, art deco pop from the hardcore
sex store, secrets of the human mind – and when you don’t expect it, great
big rushes of Kate Bush euphoria in a cabaret style – choosing constantly.
Yes, Dresden Dolls and Devil Doll, like all the films you can’t see. So
so original, an animated magic box, a box of chocolates - I don’t know
which one to pick, I want then all in the room of baroque and electricity
and straight jackets and Sugarcubes. Sometimes we have to give up
the things we wanted because? We’re dancing around architecture again
and whatever’s behind the big brown eyes and sugar rush pop fun - or it
would be if that wasn’t such a devalued statement and pop means nothing
anymore – sketchbooks songs, delicate worldly knowing innocence and
rules of nature that change the feature – and one day soon all this lo-fi
sketchbook stuff will give way to great big clever warm glowing pop songs
to hang all your hats on. Adopted like a foundling and ready to fly…….
A beautiful eight song demo that we really must do something with
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