Acquired by mail from Amazon in July 2005
Ref: BRUM 2 CD - Published by West Midlands in England in 2005
Support: CD 12 cm
12 titles
After the second album Denim , Denim on ice, I listened very little, I got a little disinterested activities of Lawrence. Novelty rock compilation I have not tried because I already had the vast majority of titles. I was not aware at the time of the mishap occurred in September 1997 in Lawrence when his final attempt to have a worldwide hit with Summer smash on EMI Major overturned at the last moment, the label that canceled out disc on the pretext that the gaiety of the tube shown in the second degree stuck with the wrong emotion aroused by the "Summer crash of Diana Spencer. And when Go-Kart Mozart released her debut album, Instant Wigwam and Igloo mixture, I had to be more or less familiar but I did not feel concerned enough to try to listen or buy this disc. By cons, who knows why, Tearing up when the album chart arrived in mid-2005, I told myself that it was nevertheless an album of Lawrence and I wanted to support it by buying the disc and mainly to see where he was musically.
And listen, the first happiness is to discover that Lawrence is actually there, and especially that he kept his voice and his singing brother of Lou Reed. Musically, it remains exactly in the line of denim, with a certain distance from the subjects, not to mention the songs in the third degree Most of the time, and still many references to the 1970s, starting with the cover, including the lettering is inspired by a James Last album . As for photos, Lawrence is very strong, since the bob and sees in a swimsuit on the cover of the book ("I still Want To Be a Star goal I just sold my guitar and You Know the Way Things Are .. . ). Inside, which unfolds in post, it is in the same outfit on a larger picture, sitting on a toilet lid, and you get to read the message written on his belly (he had already used this support in 1990 for the cover of the compilation Bubblegum perfume ): "Go-Kart Mozart - Classic upstarts.
If continuity with Denim is so strong because, as Lawrence explained including an interview with Magic in 2003, it is in fact inseparable projects, release under the name of being reserved for Denim discs with a large budget released by big labels, "B-sides" or recordings made with bits of string being reserved for Go-Kart Mozart. This explains why four of the songs were originally released on Denim take over the band's third album which never emerged.
Ultimately, while I ended up buying too Instant Wigwam and Igloo mixture , I would say Tearing up the album chart is my favorite album of post-production Felt of Lawrence. It's an album short and compact twelve good songs with a very strong unit, even if the palette of sounds ranging from electric rock to pop seventies, through various evolutions of synthetic sounds of the early 70's to the 80 (Jean-Jacques Perrey to new wave, actually). Although I guess the budget does not meet expectations of Lawrence, the sound is excellent and the project participants fairly numerous, including Terry Miles and WH Smiffy (the Smithy of Denim likely) to synths, Tony Barber (former Buzzcoks second generation) and Steve New (Rich Kids, who died at age 50 in 2010) guitars.
As I like the whole disc, it's hard to isolate securities. After referring to precedence Chicory Tip and Foghat, Lawrence cites this time Marmalade, a Scottish band from the early 70s, on Listening to Marmalade , perhaps his most since Index Electric in 1979! Oddly, Electric rock & roll is much less power. Rather it is a "highly artificial, almost new wave, in which Lawrence sings at the beginning, like Jona Lewie , which has just resumed Seaside Shuffle Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs opposite B Summer smash . With each listen, it feels strange to hear him sing "Ooh rock & roll" ... Summer is here
is very pop and may be regarded as a Summer smash bis. Both titles were strung building site, which recalls the rhythmic In the Summertime Mungo Jerry and Fuzzy duck, a waltz punctuated by sound strangled duck electronic are perhaps those where Lawrence gives the impression most of us take the leg and have his tongue in cheek, as they say in English.
More than fifteen years after his departure from Felt, it seems that Lawrence had yet to pass a message to Maurice Deebank. He uses Delta Echo Echo Beta Alpha Neon Kettle the international radio alphabet, but the message remains cryptic, it seems fair to question the memory of a police control. The title itself sounds like Devo or Taxi-Girl first period.
At least two titles clearly refer to the world of drugs and drug addicts, At The DDU ( At the control center Addiction ), which begins before you leave enough electricity in a soaring pop chorus on a surprise, "You Know That massive shot of meth Will not Hit You At The DDU " and & Donna ; The Dopefiends ("Hey Donna come on, I want to score, Donna Hey come on, I want some more ). It is a world which at first glance would have seemed completely foreign to Lawrence Felt, but these words and pictures of a gaunt Lawrence suggests that there's lived there, what confirms an article from 2010 Guardian which speaks of a time when Lawrence was in the hole, addicted to smack and homeless.
This period seems happily over and 2011 should be a year full of projects for Lawrence (but let us beware, these projects were already announced for 2010 and Lawrence is no stranger to incessant delays), with two discs to finalize Go-Kart Mozart, the mini-album Mini-Mart and the album On the street hot dog, and two projects with Paul Kelly, documentary, Lawrence Of Belgravia , a draft was proposed in London several years ago , and a book of photographs accompanied by Felt extracts from the newspaper of Lawrence.
Tearing up the album chart is always available, especially in its distributor Cherry Red .
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