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Luxembourg vs Great Britain – Luxembourg (Dogbox Records)
So...downloading songs.
Not really that au fait with modern technology? Feel like your status as a
CONSUMER is being cheapened by the airy-fairy concept of buying something
you can’t actually touch wafting down a phone-line? Jonesing for proper
product you can grasp in your shivering, clammy paw? Got this unshakeable
urge for a chunk of plastic wrapped in a shiny sleeve featuring a pale male
torso? Then relief is yours!
Those darlings at Dogbox
records are releasing the mighty ‘LVGB’ as a real life record
you can buy, carry home triumphantly and caress in the privacy of your bedsit.
I think we all know by now that you need this song in your life (if not see
here) but what of the other two tracks you’ll
get for your cash?
Well, there’s ‘The Exhibitionist’ which goes rollicking
along somewhere between Martha and the Muffins’ ‘Echo Beach’,
The Smiths’ ’Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others’ and er,
‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ (no really, I was just trying to
think what that rolling guitar sounded like and that’s what it is. Blimey).
Rob’s guitar even goes a tad psychedelic in parts, but then its okay
‘cos Alex sprinkles skinny synth sounds all over the top giving ‘The
Exhibitionist’ that requisite Lux glitter we’ve all come to demand
as our right. ‘You can have me if you want me / and you can have me
right now’ cries David as you execute some fancy footwork across the
laminate flooring. Oh, go on then.
‘About Time’ is one of those delicate Luxembourg moments that they do so well. A softly glowing keyboard, which manages to be both incredibly cute and really rather touching, frame’s David’s voice as he delicately picks his way through the words. Let’s you down gently.
R.R.R.G: Comprehensive aggravated blush
