Due to ludicrous technology
We have a box in our kitchen which plays music via the power of wireless internet. Because of this, I’ve been listening to The Postal Service a fair bit while cooking. They’re pretty good, a little bit like a cross between Bearsuit and The Flaming Lips. Add to that a random MP3 playing of Arab Strap’s ‘The Shy Retirer’, and a purposeful tracking down of some Camera Obscura, and it occours to me to wonder if featuring trumpets is a sure sign of a good indie record? I mean, given indie’s awesome capacity for making bad records, I assume there must be _some_ bad records with trumpets on them, but I can’t think of any.
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“The Shy Retirer” is an outstanding track.
“i lost my social skills a while ago but now i feel them coming back
my eyes were rolling when we met and now they are perparing for attack
i want to fall in love tonight and for the perfect unbreakable bond
you can be my teenage jenny agutter, swimming naked in a pond”
Comment by Marty @ 11/10/2005 9:15 am
There’s a lot of good lines in that track. I like the couplet, “I know I’m always moaning / but you jump-start my seratonin” myself.
Comment by Tim @ 11/10/2005 4:55 pm