Felt - The Splendour Of Fear (Full Album)

Essential "jangle pop" from the perfidious Albion: in our view, comparable and perhaps even superior to the Sound themselves. Sitar scales, impressive melodies and "climaxes" marked by sharpness and arrangements, scholarly evocations of "surf." We listened to a version of "The Optimist and the Poet" a few days after our aunt's wedding, which then went miserably awry (but the reception was excellent, even if lacking in kosher delicacies: a year later, the Polish pope would go to pay homage to the elder brothers in their den) at a gathering of old comrades defeated by history and life: but never subdued.