The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 01 May, 2008.

It's coffee this morning for me. I'm a tea man normally but, hey, gotta knock those cobwebs out. Had a dream last night I was being chased around a supermarket by a female android in a ski mask & cyber bikini bottoms. She was trying to do me in with an egg whisk. Shouldn't have had that chinese....MSG has a lot to answer for. The coffee link becomes apparent when I pick up The Wave Pictures CD 'Instant Coffee Baby' which is a lively old skool indie collection of uncluttered romantic & humorous jingles weighing in (initially) somewhere between The Brilliant Corners & Milky Wimpshake. There's definitely a touch of genuine soul & drama within these songs. Sparse trad instrumentation, jangly guitars, chatty bass & clean, uncomplicated drums render these tracks quite timeless. David Tattersal the singer has one of those wholesome, yearning & slightly effeminate voices that is full of pathos & poetry, he stretches his charm all over these fragile songs, sometimes rattling along like a less bedroomy & gloomy Lodger, at other times echoing the strummy kitchen sink majesty of The Broken Family Band (with some gorgeous rustic violin snaking all over the shop on track 9!) or even mid period B&S! I can see any genuine fans of the twee-er end of indie getting on down to these rather charming & passionately assembled toe wagglers. A really pleasant surprise! On Moshi Moshi.

TRACKLISTING: (1) LEAVE THE SCENE BEHIND (I LOVE YOU LIKE A MADMAN (3) WE COME ALIVE (4) KISS ME (5) INSTANT COFFEE BABY (6) AVOCADO BABY (7) FRIDAY NIGHT IN LOUGHBOROUGH (8) RED WINE TEETH (9) STRANGE FRUIT FOR DAVID (10) JUST LIKE A DRUMMER (11) I REMEMBERED (12) JANUARY AND DECEMBER (13) CASSIUS CLAY

Producing seductively shabby love songs, with unsurpassed dexterity and an authenticity born out of obscurity, The Wave Pictures deliver their debut album Instant Coffee Baby on Moshi Moshi.With lead singer David Tattersall and bassplayer Franic Rozyckigrowing up in Wymeswold near Loughborough, the roots of The Wave Pictures lie far from the scene centric commerciality of the prevailing mainstream. Instant Coffee Baby is an album so lyrically of its time it should be placed in the Blue Peter time capsule, and yet it's production is timeless, it's touchstones myriad and the performances little short of virtuoso.They're gloriously unaware of how great they are; of the delicately be spoiled romance in January And December and Red Wine Teeth; of their timeless Englishness on Friday Night In Loughborough; of the absurd pop whimsy that graces the Avocado Baby track and Strange Fruit For David; and the unparalleled eloquence of their unwitting zeitgeist slapping, Leave The Scene Behind.Recorded in the basement studio of The Duke Of Uke music shop on Hanbury Road, East London, their debut album Instant Coffee Baby is comprised largely of live takes; with overdubs reserved for the oddbacking vocal, violin, brass or guest appearance. Here is the simple spacious recording of early blues and country records and essential Garage band 'roots pop'. Allowing their twisted love songs to evoke the grubby romance within the very fabric of English life, that is purely The Wave Pictures..

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