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The trap is the same as always: catchy single heard on the radio, "spend money, see camel", fool who buys the record, but this time we'll outsmart them...
The track in question is "In The Morning", which is a very easy ballad, with its vibraphone and little acoustic guitar and up-tempo drums that we like so much in summer while scoping out the girl under the parasol. Obviously, something like this can't last long, and indeed after two and a half minutes, we return to reality. The Coral of "Invisible Invasion" are not original at all, but they manage to bring out something good too: the coordinates of this album are those of indie with a often elaborate sound, with splashes of electronics and psychedelia.
The dance opens with "She Sings The Morning", a track that would practically belong to Cake ("oops, did I choose the wrong playlist? Oh, no..."), with '50s "monster" atmospheres, a guitar with vibrato (and it seems a tad of chorus too), nursery rhyme singing. It continues with "Cripples Crow": I'd say we're dealing with something along the lines of Franz Ferdinand, with the most out-of-tune guitar solo you can imagine. Here we are at "So Long Ago", a mix of Smiths and Belle & Sebastian: it's a very sustained ballad where the blend of guitars (acoustic + electric) is really enjoyable and the galloping bass contributes to making us tap our fingers chasing the rhythm. "The Operator" offers an acidic organ that reminds of Scooby Doo cartoon music, where electro inserts open the melody in the choruses: the whole thing is veeeery cooked. "Come Home", spacey and melancholic, closes in a turmoil of sounds from a paranoid nightmare that introduces "Far From The Crowd", which for some reason reminds me of the atmosphere in "Tomorrow Parties" by Velvet Underground: maybe it has to be the sense of folk claustrophobia it emits - one of the best tracks on the album. "Leaving Today" starts off like Santana (with a full and round sound), to settle into a sixties ballad. It gets rocky in "Arabian Sand", with a little organ annoying the whole thing, while trying to escape from the "Madman's In The Desert", all very paranoid. The atmosphere is calmest in "Late Afternoon", with a central violin section, one of the most beautiful tracks.
What's the problem with this album? It's that it wants to be catchy but needs multiple listens to be absorbed. The trouble is, I still don't hum any song, after several listens... Plus the tracks are very short, which makes me think dreadfully of a radio-friendly product. Well... judgment pending, to be downloaded. This time too, I fooled you, camel driver!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 She Sings the Mourning (03:08)
Down to the glen where the roses twine
Lie in the grass watch the time go by
The hum drum mid-afternoon sun
Only his mothers only son
Black Jack tarmac dirt dust trap
Sister certain wrapped in rags
Whispers words of unwished schemes
Steals a smile from the scorpions dream
She sings the mourning
She sings the mourning
She sings the mourning
In the quiet night
She said don't worry
She said don't worry
She said don't worry
We're out of sight
She sings the mourning
In the quiet night
Blood red love not temptress eyes
Cuts right through the family ties
Lighthouse lights the locust nest
Salem's site invites incest
Back to the glen where the roses twine
Treacle tarts and turpentine
Patron saint of guillotines
A secret's safe when no-one sees
She sings the mourning
She sings the mourning
She sings the mourning
In the quiet night
She said don't worry
She said don't worry
She said don't worry
We're out of sight
She sings the mourning
In the quiet night
(x2)
02 Cripple's Crown (03:38)
Unopened door
On the 13th floor
Conspiracy in the corridors
I'll take you down
Down to cripples crown
What should you say?
What can you do?
Satellites are watching you
I'll take you down
Down to cripples crown
I'll take you down
Down to cripples crown
At this dark hour
Who'll be there?
Open the door
If you dare
Venus fly trap on the stairs
I'll take you down
Down to cripples crown
There'll be no time
There'll be no tears
The elavator disappears
I'll take you down
Down to cripples crown
I'll take you down
Down to cripples crown
Cripples crown
Cripples crown
Cripples crown
Cripples crown
03 So Long Ago (02:42)
Up on Kill Devil hill
The sand dunes are still
It ends as it begins
December 1903
A buzzard on the breeze
The coin will see who wins
I said it's heads or tails
Bicycles for sale it's time to go
But now it seems so long ago
Now it seems so long ago
It was three days later
In a web of wire
Or so it seems
Up on Kill Devil hill
The sand dunes are still
Picture the scene
I watched their plans unfold
In the morning cold
The world will know
But now it seems so long ago
Now it seems so long ago
If that's you over there
You can laugh you can stare
Well i don't care
I'll just say heads or tails
Bicycles for sale it's time to go
But now it seems so long ago
But now it seems so long ago
But now it seems so long ago
But now it seems so long ago
04 The Operator (02:20)
The operators came and took me away
They took me away
Everybody laughed
Remember the day they took me away
I don't know what they're looking for
Don't think i'll ever know
They laid me on the bed
Drilled my head
The incision bled
Put wires in my brain
Every now and again
I remember a name
And as i drift away
Into my hiding place
A maze of alleyways
Where the cameras cannot see
The operators came and took me away
They took me away
Everybody laughed
Remember the day they took me away
Remember the day they took me away
Remember the day they took me away
05 A Warning to the Curious (03:56)
A warning to the curious
A message for the meek
Its better not to be in love
Than to be in between
You, If i never had you
Then i wouldn't feel the way i do now
If i never had you
It was just a joke you said
But now i'm warning you
On whose grounds do you dare to tread?
When all your plans fall through
You, If i never had you
Then i wouldn't feel the way i do now
If i never had you
A warning to the curious
A message for the meek
It's better not to be in love
Than to be in between
You, If i never had you
Then i wouldn't feel the way i do now
If i never had you
If i never had you
If i never had you
If i never had you
If i never had you
If i never had you
If i never had you
If i never had you
06 In the Morning (02:33)
Shut the bedroom window in the morning
Go to the shop, make plans to be leaving
In the morning
Thought I was sleeping, it was just a dream
An ally cat chewing on dead leaves
In the morning
Out of the dark and into the light
When the morning comes I will be alright
When I leave I try not to wake her
Tiana toast to yesterday's capers
In the morning
She wrote my name on a red telephone box
When I got there she'd already rubbed it off
In the morning
Out of the dark and into the light
When the morning comes I will be alright
And all this time I've watched it change
But it's still the same
In the morning
In the morning
In the morning
In the morning
07 Something Inside of Me (02:26)
Something inside of me
Feels like i've been wanting you forever
There'll never be another century
There's no time to think about the weather
When there's something inside of me
Something inside of me
Something inside of me
And now i can't look back
The invisible invasion
It's like a stranger strangled on the moor
Into the void for now i'm gone
Five in the morning i'll be knocking at your door
With something inside of me
Something inside of me
Something inside of me
And now i can't look back
Oh please don't cut me loose
I know you think that i'm bullet-proof
Can't you see that it's hurting me
What do think i'm supposed to be when
There's something inside of me
Feels like i've been wanting you forever
There'll never be another century
There's no time to think about the weather
When there's something inside of me
There's something inside of me
Something inside of me
And now i can't look back
08 Come Home (04:14)
Come home you've been gone too long
I hear you walking like a tired dog
All alone in the wild untamed
A fading face in the picture frame
Well i'll be waiting when the cuckoo calls
A different place but the same four walls
I hear you crying for somebody's arms
Come home away from harm
Tears those tears and thorns
The unborn will pass through every storm
While the sad silent son
He sings for the kings
And the times they had last spring
Come home through the hurricanes
The violent winds and the sharp chicanes
I see you swimming in the blackest seas
With the magnets and the mysteries
Above the fireplace upon the shelf
In the book where i find myself
Was it you who turned the page last night?
Come home it will be alright
Tears those tears and thorns
The unborn will pass through every storm
While the sad silent son
He sings for the kings
And the times they had last spring
Come home (x8)
10 Leaving Today (03:08)
I'm leaving today
Too much time's already wasted
I know i can't stay
So i've made my reservations
I'm closing the door
To this old empty house...
...Of sorrows
They're only sorrows
Until tomorrow
I'm leaving today
Things i'll never know
All the words i wanted to say
Ghost at the window
And things will never be the same
I'm closing the door
To this old empty house...
...Of sorrows
They're only sorrows
Until tomorrow
I'm leaving today
I'm rolling my bones
Right out of this lonely place
I'll never go home
It's not my home anyway
I'm closing the door
To this old empty house...
...Of sorrows
They're only sorrows
Until tomorrow
I'm leaving today
11 Arabian Sand (04:02)
Arabian sand
Feel it slipping through your hands
Arabian sand
Arabian sand
A madness you can't understand
Arabian sand
The mad man's in the desert
Look out behind you
The mad man's in the desert
Looking to find you
The mad man's in the desert
Promised the future
The mad man's in the desert
He's looking to shoot you down
In the desert
The mad man's in the desert (x3)
Arabian sand
Feel it slipping through your hands
Arabian sand
Arabian sand
Swear an oath and take a stand
Arabian sand
The mad man's in the desert
Look out behind you
The mad man's in the desert
Looking to find you
The mad man's in the desert
Promised the future
The mad man's in the desert
He's looking to shoot you down
In the desert
The mad man's in the desert (x3)
Can you dance with the lepers
In the mad man's house (x16)
12 Late Afternoon (03:56)
It's late afternoon
Smoke fills the room
The actor sighs
Dogs barking outside
The night seems the same
It sleeps in the day
The actress cries
For their last goodbyes
It's always this way
Everytime
You're passing me by
On days like these
Walk to the sea
It's too hard to find
Mirrors collide
The end of the street
The place where we meet
With tears in our eyes
Stay for a while
It's always the same
Everytime
You're passing me by
It's late afternoon
You enter the room
The music dies
And leaves us behind
It's all just a game
Everytime
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