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Doing nothing... Ah, what a great thing doing nothing is.
Because, let's face it, wasting time is an art. Throwing hours of our life down the toilet requires imagination.
In this sense, DeBaser is a perfect tool: don't know what to do? You start browsing reviews, improbable dialogues, comments, and rankings. Then, maybe, you find a user who has tastes similar to yours, and you begin to practice obsessive voyeurism.
This is exactly how I discovered the Boo Radleys. By spying on rankings of those with similar tastes to mine.
Everything's Alright Forever (1992) I practically bought blindly. And it was a stunning surprise.
A few acoustic guitar chords and the journey begins. "Spaniard" is ethereal pop with Spanish-flavored melodies. The trumpet at the end could be the funeral dirge for a bullfighter who didn't fare well in the ring. A voice dense with reverbs. Distant. "Towards The Light" makes things clear: My Bloody Valentine. It's undeniable, the four Englishmen devoured Loveless, but it would be reductive and unfair to view them as mere copies of Bloody Valentine.
The Boo Radleys have class, they write beautiful pieces, and this album is a shoegaze masterpiece. "Skyscraper" is rarefied beauty. I hadn't heard a melody so seductive in a while. A mix of noise and languid guitars, that's the formula. And it works. Works to perfection.
"I Feel Nothing" opens with a fiercely distorted wall of sound that would fit perfectly on Psychocandy, then transforms into an alien-like bossa nova. Touches of originality in a genre often too stereotyped.
"Room at the Top" is hypnotic and roaring, in pure Loveless style (perhaps the most MBV of the album). It's sex inside a blender.
"Firesky" is a run into the void. It changes your way of breathing. Oxygen is no longer needed. And the distorted echoes are real waves crashing against your chills.
Ah, what a great thing doing nothing is.
How lovely to drown like this... in a bathtub as big as an ocean.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
08 Does This Hurt? (03:56)
Ca-rolin,
Ca-rolin,
You smashed your dreams and now you've taken mine
Ca-rolin,
Ca-rolin,
You talk so low and make out you're so kind
Ca-rolin,
Ca-rolin,
You trampled on the only one who cared
Ca-rolin,
Ca-rolin,
Don't walk off and pretend you haven't heard
Ca-rolin,
Ca-rolin,
If you're so high and clever where's your friends?
If you're so high and clever where's your friends?
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