Label: Universal/Absolute
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5024545163926
ASIN: B00005QVYQ
Release Date: 2002-08-19
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Artist: Tompaulin
Label: Universal/Absolute Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 5024545163926 ASIN: B00005QVYQ Release Date: 2002-08-19 |
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UK pressing. Debut album from the much talked about sextet. Compared to Belle & Sebastion Tompaulin, has more of a sharp wit to go along with their swooning melodies and overall 60's style pop feel. Uglym. 2004.Album Details
Debut Album from the Much Talked About Sextet. Compared to Belle and Sebastion Tompaulin, Has More of a Sharp Wit to Go Along with their Swooning Melodies and Overall 60's Style Pop Feel.Customer Reviews:
Dirt In All The Creases.......2002-12-24
The Songs :-
'My Life At The Movies' sets the tone, suitably
breezy and brass-bouyed. Literate and infectious.
By 'Richard Brautigan', the first of many literary
allusions, the storm clouds are gathering. The
chunky, can I say that, bass drives this spectral
elegy. The act of writing to try to overcome pain.
'Daydreaming' is all swooning and dreamy. A young
prostitute dreaming of being with her ideal man. Who
may be a client. Or may simply be a daydream.
'Westholme Girls' reminds me of Dylan. Not a
comparison I bandy about lightly. "It's a nice house
and you want to smash it/There's a nice car but you
want to crash it..." - small-town frusration made
poetic. And hypnotic.
The Song :-
'The Boy Hairdresser'. Makes me think of...well,among other things, living in Blackburn, a realistic nostalgia, time passed. Jamie playing this acoustic and defiant live. A physical reaction. Only the best music can create this. "How did those days turn into these days..." is the refrain and then I'm looking for answers...Okay : because of where we live and what we do and who we are, I suppose. The fact that tompaulin suggest that a little more tolerance and understanding wouldn't go amiss in our day-to-day lives, highlighted in other songs like 'Short Affairs', is a cause for celebration. The older I get the more I feel that personal politics, how you conduct yourself on a daily basis, are really the only politics. The only politics that can matter to those of us growing up and living in small towns like Blackburn. Like everywhere. tompaulin support the Anti-Nazi League. Just a thought.
The Chills :-
The final track on the album is 'Second Rate
Republic'. Ghostly beauty. "You're not lonely,
you're just on your own..." is the single best line
since whenever. And the song reminds me of The
Chills. High praise, believe me.
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