FELT (Go Kart Mozart, Denim)... Lawrence is amazing!

Mooro, can you link to that ETA song again?

Please and thank you.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00097HDW2/ref=cm_mp_wli_/202-7893692-0081442

is being released the same day as this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00093UQUC/ref=cm_mp_wli_/202-7893692-0081442

Wich I think it's a very happy coincidence.

I've only just got hold of the St Etienne! Overdosing on Most Antipated Records For Several Years, today. I should probably listen to it now.

If you can't appreciate the towering majesty of songs like "Drinkin' Um Bongo" then I feel sorry for you.

It is less psychotic than the last one. It is not dissimilar to Novelty Rock, perhaps. At first I thought it was just an album of "Summer Smash"seses... I don't want to say that it has more 'depth' than that, because, that would be pretty wanky. But. They are "real" songs, yes.

Also, as last time: recommended listening, lyrics to track from next album, bandname suggestions (Shoes & Socks! Salamanda Palaganda!), 'new records to look out for' etc etc. The whole package is a beautiful thing, there is certainly no question at all of this being some kind of sub-Denim pissabout (not that I thought the last album was either, but I gather that others kind of did).

On $|$|< the other day I located a guy who was sharing an unreleased 1998-era-ish version of Denim Takes Over. This was quite surprising. "Trangressions", "City Centre" and "Delta Echo" from the new GKM are also on this, and "At The DDU" apparently previously existed as "Lorra Laughs, Cilla". I need to lavish more time on the rest of it, but, fantastic.

The (Bob Stanley) review of Go-Kart Mozart in the current Uncut includes teensy interview wherein Lawrence claims that a third album will be out later this year, I can't remember if he was referring to Denim or GKM. But the prospect of either is pretty glorious.

!!!

How come I never find anything like that on $|$|< nowadays?

Some downloads here, including Denim's mythical "Summer Smash" single! Good site in general, that. Check out the pictures page, I'll be scouring eBay for those Denim patches and beermats.

http://felt2.home.sapo.pt/gkm-Elephant_trunk.mp3

Got pics, mp3, discography, etc.

Drop by.
Cheers,
Rui

In the meantime, as an intro for the uninitiated, here's what I wrote about the record nearly four years ago (gasp!).

tube: Bethnal Green
buses: 8, 388

I'm planning a Lawrence spotlight feature at Tower U.S. - too bad Denim On Ice and Novelty Rock aren't reissued (yet?) so I could hint at the joys of "Brumburger" and "The New Potatoes" (and other tunes that irritated as b-sides but became brilliant as a great crap comp). probably build the feature around the core of Strange Idols, Forever Breathes, Back In Denim and Tearing Up (latter also read as choking up, making you blub).

current spotlights: Comsats and Rob Wratten (thanks lovely reissue labels).

You may or may not find it amusing.

alternatively ankle tattoo, i think lawrence would dig that

or is that the second line...

Really interesting watch, and keen to read the book now.

I don't think nearly enough is made of the way Lawrence has always played with the most critically unfashionable sounds he can find, that refusal to accept that as a boundary, and a lot of that does kind of prefigure aspects of PC Music - like you play Novelty Rock and GFOTY's Secret Mix next to each other and tell me there's no connection there. Though of course I would expect him to disagree with all of that. A good point is made towards the end of the interview, that there's not a single masterpiece album you can point to that explains what he's about - but you could do an incredible let's say 2CD career-spanning compilation (and I might have a try)

Haven't watched the video yet but I pre-ordered the book from Rough Trade when it was first announced and can't wait to read it.

Thanks for posting, will read. I admire how Lawrence is not so keen on the usual boring rock thing of artistic refinement and progression and sophistication, and he seems determined not to have ossified ideas and to be open minded aesthetically… but it’s still a pure expression of himself, he’s not just pretending to be hip with whatever the new thing is whatever, but he seems determined not to get stale… that’s the sense I get, anyway, even if I don’t tend to like the results much post-denim.

Are not the two "Absolute Classic Masterpieces" compilations sufficient to show his brilliance? I suppose you could trim them down and then add highlights from his post-Felt career.

My imaginary 2CD compilation would only have Felt on CD1, not on CD2.

^^^ totally

Oooh he wouldn't like that

My own Felt "greatest hits" consists of the first three albums, "Me And A Monkey On The Moon" (complete album) and "Ballad Of The Band"

Somebody left a synthesiser out on the curb yesterday and it was raining, and I took a photo of it while humming to myself

The audiobook of Street Level Superstar has appeared on Sp*tify

I listened to that...a bit of a grind at times but by the end he'd kinda won me over...just

I thought the book was excellent -- much more of a straight biography than I expected from the subtitle ("A Year with Lawrence").

https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/an-interview-with-lawrence-icon-of-the-pop-underground/

Good stuff.

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