Massive, joyous handclaps the Klaxons would wear Gap for. The sound of Delta 5 and LiLLiPUT scaling Phil Spector’s wall of sound. Vocals as fun as a pretty Swedish girl joyously screaming her favourite karaoke song at your house. And still, Love Is All’s cover of The Pastels’ Nothing To Be Done is the weaker song on this double A-side.
It might raucously revamp the mouthful of braces singing on the polite C86 original, but the equally billed Ageing Had Never Been His Friend blows it out of the water.
LIA managed an unsurpassed post-post-punk re-imagining of the saxophone as credible instrument on their album 9 Times That Same Song. Here they pull one of my favourite singing tricks, (a backing vocalist singing back the main vocalist’s words, with personal pronouns altered to match gender difference, fact fans) which is enough attention to detail alone to rock my geeky little world.
But then Josephine Olausson mutters nonsense about freezers and babies over a broken bridge that morphs into a joyous last chorus. It’s all propelled by frantic drums and some remnants of an organ deep in the mix and when it ends abruptly, just short of 3 minutes, you miss it immediately.
Breathtakingly great.
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Album, Josephine Olausson, Punk, Review, Single
