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26/02/08
Two songs that are fucking with my head right now…
“I Hope I Know You” by The Clientele – an enduring song, one that has been with me since ESP started our last US jaunt supporting them at The Casbah in San Diego. Actually, you could take any of the songs from their last record, “God Save The Clientele”... “Bookshop Casanova”, “Here Comes The Phantom”, “Brighton Beach To Santa Monica”... they’re all just as good. Utterly beautiful. They also had the legendary Louis Philippe arrange the strings for this album, which gives a lot of it a warm, ecstatic, almost disco edge. A truly great record. Do check it out – it’s on Merge Records in the States, and therefore not too hard to find anywhere. The second is a dEUS tune, one of Colin Murray’s favourites – “Instant Street”. A gorgeous piece of music. It’s not every day you hear a song that changes everything, but this will, and still does for me. I first saw them live at a barbeque at 2 in the morning in some dodgy Bar ‘N’ Grill at South By South West 2006. They blew me away with what was probably only a 20 minute set. Same deal when I saw them in Oslo supporting Snow Patrol later that year. Amazing band. Check it all out.
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