• 1.1. face on the rail line
  • 1.2. alpine
  • 1.3. always on my mind
  • 1.4. mirrorball
  • 1.5. three wheeled car
  • 1.6. liminal
  • 1.7. canterbury lanes
  • 1.8. cinematic
  • 1.9. like the rain
  • 1.10. the overview effect

catenary wires, the

birling gap

BIRLING GAP

CD  €  14,99
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BIRLING GAP

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Indie pop comes of age! Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey love pop songs, but pop songs with an edge. With their early bands Talulah Gosh and Heavenly, they were often dismissed by critics of the time as fey or 'twee', but this prejudice has since been revised: some of those sweet fizzy songs were about date-rape, and the band were an influential part of the movement that became riot grrrl. On their new album as The Catenary Wires, the songs are as strong as ever, full of sweet melody and rich with vocal harmonies. But the tunes are now vehicles for startlingly honest adult concerns: the fractured relationships, anxieties, passions and politics of people who live on an island that's turning in on itself. Like the Go-Betweens and XTC before them, The ... read more