Sinister: Over-production killed the radio star

[Caitlin Ross]

Ooh, everyone seems to be looking forward to the new album.  I'm not 
too excited about Lord Anthony, but I do rather like Step Into My 
Office Baby.  I hope it's got lots of flute.

All the fans who found the band early-on, of course, now have to ponder 
and get all introspective, and go on about whether they still love the 
band or not.  For some reason I never feel like I was an 'early-
adopter' kind of B&S fan - there are so many people who heard about 
them before me.  I didn't even join Sinister until over a month after 
it had started.  They were a bit different in those days - those 
newcomers who never heard B&S's death metal phase have Never Lived.  
We've all changed a lot too, and found lots more new, exciting music to 
gush over.  B&S, though, are still lovely and melodic and swoonworthy 
even if they now have a string section and Trevor Horn.

I jumped awake, startled, at five to seven this morning.  I had the 
radio on, and 'Expectations' was playing, the introduction bit with the 
cardigan zip.  The radio was tuned to Radio 4, and they were trailing a 
documentary.  "If they'd used 'Beautiful' instead," I thought to 
myself, "the world would IMPLODE in a whirlpool of self-
referentiality!"  It's a good thing they didn't, then.

(And "Teachers" is back on telly again, and still has TBWTAS as its 
closing theme.  Plus, they still have a donkey hidden somewhere in 
every episode.  And children randomly beating each other up, and 
falling out of trees.  GRATE!)

love
xx
caitlin


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