"And I Won't Look Down..."
OK. CDs finally arrived from Play (Embrace & Interpol on Friday and Devendra Banhart & The Futureheads on Saturday morning). "Gravity" by Embrace is such a fantastic song. I like to say that Danny MacNamara honks like a sealion, but that song (written by Chris Martin) is touched by genius and no mistake. C. wasn't at all surprised when I said I really liked it, and remarked that this was exactly the kind of thing that I always go for- meaning, I think, sappy guitar bands. Maybe, but this is a great song anyway.
I'm currently tapping my foot to 'The Futureheads' though - an album which probably could have been recorded in 1978, but doesn't sound any the worse for that.
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I'm currently tapping my foot to 'The Futureheads' though - an album which probably could have been recorded in 1978, but doesn't sound any the worse for that.
ST [via email]
posted by swisslet @ 18:48
2 Comments:
At 8:28 pm,
swisslet said…
I think I know why Coldplay passed "Gravity" on.
As I was getting into the pool at the gym, I paused for a second to listen to the song that was playing through the PA - it sounded an awful lot like "Gravity" and I was amused by the coincidence. Turns out it was the end of "The Scientist". Go and have a listen.
(I knew it sounded vaguely Coldplay-ish, to the extent that I checked the album credits to see if it was just a lyric given to Embrace, or if it was the whole song. Indeed, it is credited to "Martin, Buckland, Berryman, Champion")
I think I may have gone off it a bit.
At 12:42 am,
Damo said…
I think it's the best song on the Embrace album. The rest suffers a bit from 'epic overload' - they're best when they do light AND shade. Get 'Drawn From Memory' - it's by far their best album.
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