Advantages: Considered; wise; wonderful; mature Disadvantages: Too short; last song
...now changed; Supergrass have released Road to Rouen, and THAT song has at last been laid to rest.
"Is this really happening? Is this the same band?!" I checked the box again. Yes, Supergrass… but, something was wrong… it didn't sound like Supergrass… well yes, it did, but no, it didn't; I couldn't quite believe it. They sounded, well… considered; relaxed; wise; knowing. I imagined a mother, parted from her son, he in his teens, the pair then reunited ... ...on the new Supergrass album Road to Rouen, brought upon me. Even the name conjures a whiff of progression and mystery (not to mention Star Wars…) The slow, building acoustic guitar, combined with a light, Beatles style piano - over a minute and no words yet! And all of a sudden, a soaring brilliance of horns and brass and strings, and then… mellowed, and a twitching piano leading the acoustic back into a subtle dance, and at last the vocals are here ...
black_dog 20.09.2005
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