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Semifinalists: You Said

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by Rachel Cawley

From the echo chambers of a gothic cathedral, distant choral voices ricochet through the cloisters, cluster in the crypt, swarm and swell before shooting out through the medieval stained glass windows. Setting off in a steep upward trajectory, ‘You Said’ is a flashlight beam into furthest outer-space, peeking sunlight through gaps in the cloud, aeroplane trails across a dark horizon. At the very same time, this both sounds massive – an orb of nebulous guitar and honey-dripping vocals, and also microscopically small – just a soap bubble, pretty, but destructed on contact.

Maybe this simultaneously expansive and tiny sound is because of the song’s structure: just under four minutes of hooks and vaporous, veiled harmonies, that could so easily be extended into a ten-minute vertiginous journey. As it is, this makes four minutes seem like an abrupt thirty seconds. I realise that good things never last, but I wish my turntable would play this for just a little longer.

  • Semifinalists 8 / 10

I saw these guys live with My Latest Novel the other day

Why haven't I heard them before? Fantastic, haven't been this excited about a band I've just seen for a good while.


You have

an impressively expansive vocabularly, rachel c. Either that or an extremely good synonym fuction on Word.


i have a scrabble playing family

thats wot. I yell "hey mum, what's that word for the bloke who's the maine part of the story thing" and then she reels off a list that I choose from. Ie, walking thesauri


yeah right. it's blatantly the Word thing.


i'm off to look for a word thing

MORE!!! outrageous vocab, yes please!!!! my aim is to make no sense at all, ever...





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