is this a dream? spending the night with you
Tonight: Au Revoir Simone at the Dublin Castle in Camden, onstage 8.15ish. £5 on the door. Also playing: The Lost Weekends, OOM (or is it Oom?)and Everything On Black.
Go to 'music' at the Au Revoir Simone website and you can hear three songs from their debut album Verses of Comfort, Assurance and Salvation, released in the UK this coming Monday. Two of those songs remain my favourite of theirs.
'Through The Backyards' is incredibly evocative of balmy summer evenings, somewhere with a warmer climate than the UK, trees with dangling fronds, people sneaking out of their bedroom windows to go swimming in somebody else’s pool and drink pitchers of home-made cocktails. Also, it always makes me think that this is kind of what Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend would be like if it was a good pop song rather than a novel in dire need of an editor.
'Back In Time' remains one of the most utterly gutting songs I’ve ever heard – I'd put it in the same category as Cat Power's 'Good Woman' for the amount of emotional devastation and sense of loss it manages to pack in, quietly, while detailing the irreversible end of a relationship.
"There were times when I
Thought that this was right.
There were times when I
Thought that this was right.
What do you think?
This will never work."
Emo-biographical anecdote time: I have a very clear memory of listening to this song while on a bus home from work, the day after a huge argument with my partner which had lasted most of the night and concluded with us deciding we had to break up. We didn't break up. But I still find it extremely difficult to listen to 'Back In Time' without remembering that feeling of utter despair.
But don't get it twisted, tonight isn't going to be depressing. Tonight is going to be beautiful.
(Au Revoir Simone also play the Windmill in Brixton tomorrow night - see their website for details.)
Tonight: Au Revoir Simone at the Dublin Castle in Camden, onstage 8.15ish. £5 on the door. Also playing: The Lost Weekends, OOM (or is it Oom?)and Everything On Black.
Go to 'music' at the Au Revoir Simone website and you can hear three songs from their debut album Verses of Comfort, Assurance and Salvation, released in the UK this coming Monday. Two of those songs remain my favourite of theirs.
'Through The Backyards' is incredibly evocative of balmy summer evenings, somewhere with a warmer climate than the UK, trees with dangling fronds, people sneaking out of their bedroom windows to go swimming in somebody else’s pool and drink pitchers of home-made cocktails. Also, it always makes me think that this is kind of what Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend would be like if it was a good pop song rather than a novel in dire need of an editor.
'Back In Time' remains one of the most utterly gutting songs I’ve ever heard – I'd put it in the same category as Cat Power's 'Good Woman' for the amount of emotional devastation and sense of loss it manages to pack in, quietly, while detailing the irreversible end of a relationship.
"There were times when I
Thought that this was right.
There were times when I
Thought that this was right.
What do you think?
This will never work."
Emo-biographical anecdote time: I have a very clear memory of listening to this song while on a bus home from work, the day after a huge argument with my partner which had lasted most of the night and concluded with us deciding we had to break up. We didn't break up. But I still find it extremely difficult to listen to 'Back In Time' without remembering that feeling of utter despair.
But don't get it twisted, tonight isn't going to be depressing. Tonight is going to be beautiful.
(Au Revoir Simone also play the Windmill in Brixton tomorrow night - see their website for details.)
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