Spectrals, Desolation Wilderness at Central, Nottingham, Fri 30 Oct
For Leeds-based Spectrals (aka Louis Jones but tonight extended to a four-piece rather than the one-man band responsible for their recordings) it's something of a triumph against the adversity of a somewhat frosty reception afforded them in their native West Yorkshire...
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I definitely need
to listen to Desolation Wilderness.
New Universe is a stunning album.
Quite a lot of the older stuff is on last.fm (still need to listen to that as well): http://www.last.fm/music/Desolation%2520Wilderness
Best news (for me, at least) is that they're playing a free show in London in 2 weeks at the Social.
Prize Pets
Were good, as they have been consistently. I think one thing that could be levelled not so much against them, but at the other bands (who were also good) is the charge 'studied'. In the schools of 50s pop and dream pop respectively. The influence was completely transparent.
Its all about opinion
and shouldn't be taken personally. The way I saw it, Spectrals and Desolation Wilderness had songs, Prize Pets didn't, and whether or not those songs were influenced by any particular era is irrelevant really.
Not taken personally...
...just my opinion!