This album reminds me of the Film Studies room at Sixth Form. I heard this via Adam McGee. Oh yes, Adam McGee made a recommendation and I liked it. A lot. I think the only copy I had of this was on minidisc, and I listened to that minidisc a hell of a lot. I used to fall asleep very happy on the bus back home.
There is a great deal of variety on this album – rocky numbers, quieter ones, and from the reviews I've read they have influences from lots of bands I'm not too familiar with (due, in part, I think, to not listening to music based on reviews in my teens). I don't really prefer the loud or the quiet songs as it really works a lot better as a whole. It is one of those ones that I'd listen to the whole way through, rather than chopping in the singles and making a mix tape/CD/minidisc/playlist. Not to say that the songs don't stand out on their own, I just hear something like 'What May Be The Oldest' in isolation and feel I've cheated and that I should have started at the start and worked up to that.
Like a lot of bands I really like there are both male and female vocalists.
I'd say the ideal place to listen to this album is either on a bus, through headphones, as you gently fall asleep or through speakers on seat by a window on a very bright, though not necessarily warm, day. Again, you'll likely end up asleep. Or maybe, I listened to it during a particularly draining growth spurt in my late teens that just associates listening to, and loving, this album in conjunction with falling to sleep.
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