Hi,

 

Having picked up in a Sunday paper a review of the latest Pearlfishers
album, (Wilson, TR, McCartney and McGuinn all mentioned in
despatches...) I duly took delivery of the album this morning,
and........it really didn't do anything for me....

 

Driving in the car to work I got to thinking about 'why?' Was it the
song-craft? Were the vocal lines wrong? The lyrics?  Or the occasional
omission of keyboards in certain songs where it might have suited?

 

Nope. Not really. However, I eventually got to a slightly unsettling
conclusion, which goes as follows: the album doesn't do it for me
because the Pearlfishers (so I am led to believe) are from Scotland.

 

They sing about simple things that Todd and Brian Wilson have reflected
upon in the past and yet when I hear the singer talk of, for example,
'the end of summer' when I suspect he may have been brought up in the
tenements of Glasgow and had a girlfriend in a suburb of Kilmarnock
(neither of which are likely to be true, but go with it...) then, for
me, the imagery begins to fall immediately on its face.

 

And yet, and yet, a beautifully conceived song like 'There She Goes' by
The La's can only (IMHO) come from a place like Liverpool...so maybe
what I'm saying is that can/should the origins of bands somehow dictate
what they sound like or the stuff they can credibly sing about? Can
where you come from ever determine how hip you're ever going to be?

 

Not sure if this going anywhere now...but, anyway, I welcome people's
views on this (and the new Pearlfishers album, for that matter!)

 

Mark Buckle

 

"Love Between the Ugly is the Most Beautiful Love of All" 
  
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