Too schooled for cool?

[sebastienne]

The new Indelicates album is up for download on a pay-what-you-want basis.

I've been listening to it non-stop for the last two hours.

Dark and political and clever and sexy and so, so true.

You need it.

If you remember dancing to Sixteen in the kitchen of pridehouse, or having your eardrums shattered in the Cellar, or crying at the failure of third-wave feminism in Our Daughters Will Never Be Free, then you need it even more. Because this album takes those themes, and others, and builds on them, with an intelligence and energy that's always teetering on the edge of despair.

"Be Afraid of Your Parents" in all its Weimar wonder reminds me of Amanda Palmer before she jumped over that shark and onto the failboat. "Savages" is heartbreaking and beautiful in its self-doubt. "Jerusalem" is every moment I spend around people from this university and, more worryingly, when I'm not watching closely enough, myself. Every other line is a pun or a reference (I'm on my third listen-through and I just caught a Bowie lyric!). And maybe there's more filler than on American Demo, or maybe I just haven't listened to it enough times yet. But it's better produced, I think, doesn't lose the energy of hearing the songs live like their first album did. And the songs that are good here are so very, very good.

Comments

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

I got it last night (I am too broke to pay for it, unfortunately) and will listen today :)

And I have very fond memories of dancing to 'Sixteen' in the kitchen of Pridehouse!

[like-achilles.livejournal.com]

On my, uh, seventh run through, I caught a Mott the Hoople reference. I love this band.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

We may well be talking about the same reference, there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Young_Dudes_%28song%29) - but I'm always going to call "Bowie!" if I can...

[like-achilles.livejournal.com]

Aha, yes we are! I concede the point, though.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Excellent, excellent. I was part of the same committed audience at the Cellar (wearing the band T-shirt, which I know is a faux pas but I don't care). Fingers crossed they come back to Oxford.