Czars: filling the audio snack gap
I’m having real difficulty finding a new album to love at the moment. Kasabian was good, but that was like, decades ago. And Interpol’s Antics, was all right - if not the life altering experience that was promised. The Dears frankly didn’t do it for me, and scouring my normal places for recommendations hasn’t lead me to anything I’ll get into. At this stage in the month, I normally have a mile long list of ‘must buys’ on the go, but it’s all dried up. (admittedly, I’m yet to scour Word’s reviews this month…but it’s not looking good).
So, Nick Watt kindly suggested I bought Goodbye from The Czars which - I now find - the Guardian gave a whopping 5 stars to.. (”Consistently inventive, profoundly moving, and never less than gorgeous’ no less) .
I like any album who’s open track is called ‘Goodbye’ - it’s quite pleasantly disorientating - and the album on the whole is rather lovely and intense. Perhaps a little too lovely and a little too intense for my current mood. It doesn’t start cheery, and gets bleaker when you read the lyrics (which are written out in the little booklet in prose form). This is ‘Trash’
Save that bullshit for the bedroom, that’s where all your best Work gets done, You’re all by your self, you’re your only lover. What do you think you’ll do to me, that you have not already done? Why don’t you try sticking your dick into all the things you’ve bought With your hard earned cash.
I think we can safely assume that relationship has reached the point of irreconcilible breakdown.
Anyway, if you want to dance around the living room, this isn’t for you. And if you play it during a dinner party, I suspect couples will start to break up between courses and people will embark on acts of self harm with the cuttlery. But it’s well, well worth a listen.
It’s not the big album I’m looking for, but it’ll do for now.