New Nicky Wire album?

[UEF]

It’s a very quick listen isn’t it!

Which songs are the pseudo manics reunion ones?

[Routine Builder]

A Perfect Place to Grow would have happily sat as the first song on Rewind The Film.

I think my contention with this album is pretty similar to my feelings towards Resistance is Futile. It's clear this is a collection of songs written over a period of time spanning different either side of momentous life events. As good as the songs are, the album lacks cohesion and an identity in and of itself /pretentious twaddle.

[Tim]

Have to say i'm loving it overall, it might lack the punch of zeitgeist but at that point we had no idea what to expect. I could do without the jazz fusion minstrel experimental stuff but there are some lovely melodies in here and i may agree it lacks some sort of cohesion, unless that cohesion is melancholia eternally because it's got lots of that. I listened to the stream a few times but it compresses the backside out of it so get the download, it's superior.

Stand out songs:

BALLAD FOR THE BABY BLUE
YOU WEAR YOUR BROKEN HEART LIKE A DRESS
WHITE MUSK
UNDER CALIFORNIA SKIES
KEEPER OF THE FLAME
TACTICAL RETREAT
SAUDADE
AS THE LIGHT FADES AWAY

Why the all caps, nicky?
Love the clarinet on white musk.
I also think saudade sounds like concrete fields, but i've always liked that song so it stays.
The album doesn't outstay its welcome by any means.

[Marconi Delorian]

As the Light Fades Away keeps turning in to Cum on Feel the Noize in my head - the 'And I don't know why' melody is very similar.

[UEF]

Mitch Ikeda says here that the Japanese version will be released by Sony music

I wonder if it already has - and whether that's a physical version, and/or whether there's a typically Japanese extra track

[Routine Builder]

I think Nicky said during an interview over the weekend that Sony Japan had approached him over it and he was mulling it over so I guess we might see CD a release in a few months. (is there a vinyl market in Japan even?)

[Marat Sar]

A Perfect Place to Grow is incredible. Don't know about the first four. Conctact Sheets is pleasant but the following three were so and so.

Let's see about the rest.

Edit -- help me check the lyrics


A PERFECT PLACE TO GROW

Silence fell again
I barely filled my lungs
I stood all alone
Trembling like a bird
In the summer sun
So walk with me again
Down through the doors of doom
I will wait for you
It won't take us long
It won't take us long

A perfect place to grow
A perfect place to show
A perfect place to hide
A perfect place to lie
A perfect place for you
A perfect place for me
A perfect place to rest
A perfect time to test
A perfect way to go
A way to show your soul
A perfect place to grow

Like a labrador
Just lying in the sun
You're looking so happy
Content and beautiful
Like labrador
So all of the best songs
That a man can find
Are fuelled by hatred
Hate for my own kind
Hate for my own kind

[AOfsht]

Originally Posted by Marat Sar

A Perfect Place to Grow is incredible. Don't know about the first four. Conctact Sheets is pleasant but the following three were so and so.

Agreed! Love the instrumentation, and overall everything about the song! It was also nice to finally hear what that song Nicky played towards the end of The Making of Postcards for a Young Man video!

[Hans]

Originally Posted by Marat Sar

A way to show your show

A way to show your soul

?

[Tim]

I'm calling it for white musk being the most poignant thing on the album. The lyrics are one thing but that clarinet... that clarinet just elevates it into the saddest thing. Special.

[Red]

Originally Posted by Tim

I'm calling it for white musk being the most poignant thing on the album. The lyrics are one thing but that clarinet... that clarinet just elevates it into the saddest thing. Special.

For context, that's Clara Jones there, playing on her dad's song for his mum and her gran.

[UEF]

Originally Posted by Routine Builder

(is there a vinyl market in Japan even?)

There isn't - old tech* and requiring great deals of space = not very Japanese

* Fax me your hanko if you disagree

[Tim]

Originally Posted by Red

For context, that's Clara Jones there, playing on her dad's song for his mum and her gran.

Yes, i know. I saw her name there on the credits.

[someone, somewhere, soon]

to my ears, A Perfect Place To Grow shares a fair amount of DNA with the demo of Divine Youth...

[Son of Stopped]

My only problem is I can't share individual tracks. Because White Musk. It's so beautiful.
It's a better Sunny day album than IKTZ.