Hey sinister, Robin Stout cast the first dare/ stone: I think people should start sending in reviews of the new album. Go on, it's not long till it's released.. The new album huh? I think I'm going to make myself unpopular here, and say I don't like DCW. A few points to note: I'm not looking for Tigermilk part 5. This has been suggested, and I think it is a bit lame for anyone to dismiss my opinion by suggesting that's why I don't like it. It seems to be a natural assumption that not liking the latest album means that you want old skool B&S back. Not true. I understand that music moves on, I just don't like this chosen route. Not once have I reminiced and wanted Tigermilk or IYFS or TBWTAS back. I loved those for what they were. I think there have been much better albums released of late. The argument that "don't compare it to their previous work, compare it to what else is around" doesn't really wash when you have bands around like the Aislers Set and Camera Obscura, who can release an album that I think, is pretty bloody good. I just can't get into the new album at all. To me, it sounds like all the half-arsed ideas that never made it onto the previous B&S releases have been shown the light of day, and released, and this isn't a reference to Lord Anthony, which I am not keen on. I fail to find anything remotely genius about "I'm a Cuckoo". I can imagine Stuart, sitting with notebook in hand on a park bench in Glasgow, pondering to himself... "cuckoo.. What ryhmes with cuckoo? poo, loo, mew, queue, two, too, dew, due, new, flu... thin-lizzy-oh..! yes! Thin Lizzy Oh! Torquay-oh! that'll do!" The lyrics, in my opinion, are weak. I don't like them. They used to write with sharpened wit, with intelligence. The innuendo used to be so much more subtle, and I enjoyed that. Yes, I am slightly talking about old-skool B&S, but it's not just old B&S that gave me that kick - it's something I find fundemental to my enjoyment of a song, be it B&S or any band that I listen to regularly. I'm hard to please, I know. There isn't anything that really catches my attention with the new album. I like Piazza, New York Catcher. The sort of albums I enjoy though tend to have more than one or two good songs. A good album, for me, is one that has several good songs, and perhaps a small minority of crap ones. I think the latest album is a little too sugary, a little overbaked, and a little egotisical. The songs , in my opinion, feel effortless, but rather than being casual and organic, they feel more like there has no interest at challenging their ablities to create a good song. It's a lazy album, as if half a dozen ideas have been randomly thrown into the album, and nobody bothered to think about it or listen. In an interview*, the link of which was recently posted by Richard Lander, Stuart said "I just got this image in my mind of a cake, of writing songs being like baking a cake. The autobiographical part of things is like the flour, and the romance side of things and the fantasy part are like the sugar and eggs." If that is the case, then this surely, has to be a fairy cake - too much sugar, too much colour and too many preservatives. It's rather too sickly to listen to more than a few times, too saccharine. I think it sounds... I dunno.. A little childish, a little infantile with the lyrics, and a little sugary with the over production. Its been completely over baked. There. Hate me. Love idles x ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+