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Recommended by us on 6th December 2006
...according to our Brian on Wed 06 Dec, 2006.
Trunk's answer to the whole Stereolab/Broadcast axis are Transcargo who open their gorgeous new CD 'Idle Luxury' with a more folk inflected take on our fave Brummie perfectionists' timeless sixties bliss pop. Actually track 1 sounds more like Broadcast than Broadcast do which ain't half an achievement. Taking in strange strum-a-long pop, possibly like a really good Tompaulin or summat then more erm...excellent Broadcast inspired stuff, a spot of Moloko with harpsichord & hint of Radiohead. A right mixed bag but I must stress that it all comes together SO coherently it hurts. The quality of songwriting is really second to none & I reckon this could well replace 'Ha Ha Sound' at the top of the pile of many people's current listening! Fantastic!I will say now, this is a great album. No really. It has lots of sweetness and lots of darkness in equal measures, and the instrumentation, arrangements, ideas and twiddly diddley bits are quite superb. If you are a girlfriend, or you have one, you should really buy this CD. It will earn you pints and maybe even a little extra nocturnal activity. The artwork is full of broken pictures and a weird cat, which I quite like.
There are 13 songs in all even though it only says 12 on the CD. I really really like track one and my favourite is track 4, which is massively dark and weird near the end. Clever people that Transcargo lot. They are even very good live. That's right, they can do no wrong. Go on.
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