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‘Office Doodles’ (LP, self-released) At last! We’ve waited almost a decade – and a couple of tracks date back as far – but one of Bristol’s true gems have finally released an album. A daydream of a concept album, in fact, taking in everything office-related from pitiable colleagues (‘Salesman Keith’, painted with Ray Davies-like waspishness) to would-be romance (“Stationery girl, keep your hand in mine, if we make it through today then we might find another life outside”). They’re sweet as ever on the CSN-inspired harmony, glowingly West Coast autumnal in the arrangements, and – bored temps take note – Tim Calleja’s voice can carry that sleepywarmwaking feeling with you all day. With an underlying theme of beauteous escape from immediate mundanity, it plays like urban pastoralism. Clockwatching time never passed more sweetly. (Julian Owen)
http://thewearyband.bandcamp.com/ Copyright Julian Owen 2011 |
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