The Null Device
Apologies for this blog's absence last night; something went down
upstream and the machine where it's hosted was inaccessible. Anyway,
I had occasion to be at PolyEster Records last night, and picked up
Saint Etienne's most recent CD, Sound of Water. I'm listening to it
now; it's very good. I was persuaded to buy it after hearing the 9-minute
triptych How We Used To Live on 3RRR, though was half expecting the
rest of it to be slavish Swingin'-Sixties retro (sort of like Mono's
Formica Blues or something), which mercifully it is not; instead
you get lush, many-layered, evolving soundscapes with a classic pop feel, and lyrics
mentioning things you'd never expect, like space exploration.
Well worth checking out.
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