Telecoms guy. Recent Swede. Even more recent #MDANT. Views largely my own and probably involve music.
Stockholm, Sweden
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Ride in Stockholm for the first time in what, 33 years? Sensational setlist peppered with old gems such as Seagull and Cool Your Boots. Pretty intimate venue, lots of old fogeys like me - looks like Slowdive have the teenage vote nailed down.
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1 | The Figurehead
Self loathing and despair to a colossal, thunderous beat. My #1 since the first time I heard it and impossible to dislodge.
Big thanks to Nathan and everyone participating
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2 | Secrets
Perhaps the most personally evocative song for me, by anyone. Sparse, fragile, RS duetting with himself - it’s so lovely. Was stunned when they played it during the Songs… livestreamed launch gig.
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3 | Cold
The album’s most beautiful track but it is tortured beauty - shallow graves, embryos and frozen eyes. Decayed magnificence from the heart of a ruined gothic cathedral
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4 | One Hundred Years
A nihilistic stream of consciousness spat out over the dull thud and death rattle of the drum machine and queasy spiralling guitar. Bleakness was never more energising.
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5 | Charlotte Sometimes
I read the book as a kid, so was thrilled with this release aside from the fact it sounds magnificent. The sonic tease of what Pornography would entail clearly in evidence. Laughably bad video though.
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6 | La Ment
A gloriously wispy dream sequence underpinned by a killer drum machine. First saw the light of day as a Smith/Severin collab as a free flexidisc, tarted up and polished as a B side. It’s exquisite.
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7 | A Short Term Effect
Simultaneously combining room-spinning drunkenness with a thunderous hangover and a side dose of hallucinogenics.
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8 | Like Cockatoos
Atmospheric magnificence with its earworm riff, the cacophony of bird noise and the orchestral grandeur at the close. How do they even dream up this stuff?
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9 | Push
So giddy, so euphoric, so exhilarating
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10 | If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Boris makes an understated but unforgettable contribution here. The overall atmosphere is spellbinding.
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11 | Seventeen Seconds
The habit of closing Cure albums with the title track would continue for a couple more. This one closes a remarkable and remarkably austere collection with a beautiful and melancholic sigh
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12 | A Forest
Probably a bit low, especially as sometimes, it strikes me as the model of perfect musical economy, quite apart from any other song.
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13 | Other Voices
Gallup’s slithering, serpentine bassline the star here
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14 | The Kiss
In which psychedelia takes a brutal, vicious pummeling while RS reminds us what a ridiculously masterful guitarist he is
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15 | This Twilight Garden
A better B side than most people’s A sides.
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16 | Kyoto Song
I’m lying on the floor of the night before…
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