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| Seamonsters - Wedding Present - 1991 |
Label: BMG (UK)
Format: CD
From: UK
My rating: 6/10
Entered: 09/11/2002
Last updated: 09/25/2002
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Search on GEMM |  | When this album was released, I was 17 years old, and at the peak of my Wedding Present mania. Listening to it now, I'm not going to tell you I completely understand why I liked them so much, but it certainly takes me back...
Recorded with Steve Albini, in Pachyderm, this is a nice enough LP. Some of the songs sound like they were bashed out in 10 minutes, but they're catchy nevertheless, including 'lovenest' (an unsuccessful single) and 'octopussy'. Albini's production appeals to me most on tracks like 'Suck', where the scything guitar sound is rather gripping. The 3 minute quiet feedback at the end of 'Lovenest' is less enthralling.
My main disappointment about the album was always that the songs here don't live up to the amazing Peel session versions of a few of the tracks that were recorded earlier. In particular, 'Blonde' has lost much of the simple catchiness of its original (scarcely-known) version.
This disc includes all the contemporary B-sides, which is nice for an old fan like me. However, some of them are appalling, such as 'Fleshworld', on which the vocals seem to have been completely made up on the spot.
It's an interesting nostalgia trip for me to hear this record again. However, if I had known then what I know now, I doubt I ever would have been interested in this record at all. |
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