Interviewer: So what's it like hearing your band on Radio
One for the first time?
Simon (drums): It's like hearing it on your normal stereo, but with someone
talking over the beginning and the end.
Listening back, it's hard to put it in context. What the chuff did Landspeed
Loungers sound like? Where so many bands
cite “musical differences” as the reason they split up, with
the Loungers, this was their raison d’etre - more directions
than a bag of snakes. Vocals swoop from choirboy clarity to guttural groans
via the skewed inflections of some
deranged crooner. Guitars weave intricate webs over sheets of crunching
chords. There’s angular tangents
and insistent arpeggios. The bass veers off from a solid driving pulse
into ludicrous, unnecessary runs,
crammed into the gaps in drum patterns that seem to skip playfully along,
before blasting into unexpected crescendos.
Frequently this all happens in the same song. Songs about long-dead scientists,
potential porn stars, disgraced M.P.s,
lethal gardening implements and “a miserable witch with a thing for
truffles”.
Much has been said and written about how the Loungers “nearly made
it”. But that’s not the point - they made exactly
what they wanted to make- ace music. So what do they sound like? They
sound like the Landspeed Loungers.
I’m gonna make you a saliva-scope. Open your mouth.
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Oct 2002 And
Now They Really Are All Dead
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