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Decoration - Square Mile/ Why Bother Asking Me Now

Square Mile/ Why Bother Asking Me Now by Decoration

4...according to our on Thu 04 Jun, 2009.

I don't think I've heard anything by Decoration before. In fact I know little about them. They may be Scottish.. not sure... and I'm not gonna read up on 'em. They have a new single out called Square Mile and it's like a shoegaze version of The Wedding Present.... Shoegazey guitars over a a well indie sounding beat with some fella who sounds just like Dave Gedge. There's a bit of the Kitchens of Distinction in there 'n all. I quite like it in a weird way.

Decoration make cinematic Pop where the movies playing are all grainy black and white Shelagh Delaney screenplays and where Julie Christie is catching the midnight train to London alone. It’s nothing new, and I for one have been here a host of times before, but so what? Isn’t that part of the whole magic of Pop? That sounds can capture moments of the present and the past in one magically conjured breath of reference that crashes across the boundaries of our personal histories, leaving us scarred for a second and reverberating with fall out for a week, a year, a lifetime…

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