Waker Glass - Neighbourhood Party (Mersea Recordings)
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| Waker Glass - Neighbourhood Party |
There is nothing, literally
nothing, guaranteed to put a smile on my face in the morning than checking my
door mat to find a mystery parcel has arrived. Something unexpected and
something that can't be a bill because bills come as letters, not parcels. Aside
from the severed body part of a loved one or faecal matter, this can only be a
good thing. In this instance, the parcel contained a delightfully orange
7" single from Canadian quartet Waker Glass. Of the two tracks on this
lovely piece of vinyl, A-side 'Neighbourhood Party' is a bar room ballad of
Pogues meets the Smiths proportions with a sinister edge perfectly embellished
by Robert Earl Stewart's rasping, sand paper vocals. B-side, 'Widow's Walk' is
an impassioned and pleading song of epic proportions which would probably worm
its way in to my heart were it not for the fact that the chorus seems to be persistently
out of tune - a preference for power over placement is perhaps misguided.
However, I'm willing to overlook this slight error of judgement purely because
they sent me cool stuff in the post, the little lovelies.
More information: www.wakerglass.com