Astrid-Strange Weather Lately-CD-FLAC-2001-401

     Artist......: Astrid
     Album.......: Strange Weather Lately
     Source......: CD
     Label.......: Mushroom Pillow
     Genre.......: Indie
     Tracks......: 15
     Bitrate.....: 999 kbps avg
     Playtime....: 00:42:07  (315.MB)
     Rls date....: 2021-10-17
     Store date..: 2001-06-04
     Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
     Url.........: http://www.astridmusic.net/
     01 Kitchen TV                                                       2:39
     02 Plastic Skull                                                    2:49
     03 High In The Morning                                              2:39
     04 Zoo                                                              2:29
     05 Standing In Line                                                 3:07
     06 Distance                                                         2:34
     07 Bottle                                                           2:25
     08 Redground                                                        3:22
     09 Like A Baby                                                      1:58
     10 Stop                                                             3:32
     11 It's True                                                        2:31
     12 Dusty                                                            2:53
     13 Boat Song                                                        2:21
     14 Boy Or Girl                                                      1:56
     15 W.O.P.R.M.                                                       4:52
     The debut album by Glasgow's Astrid follows three EPs, no songs from which
     are included here. Although the Nick Drake and Sarah Records-influenced
     twee pop of Belle and Sebastian was getting the majority of the Scottish
     music industry press in 1999, Astrid's considerably peppier sound has much
     more in common with earlier Glaswegian heroes as Teenage Fanclub or the BMX
     Bandits. Obviously '60s-influenced (the band is named after famous Beatle
     girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr, after all) but not at all slavishly retro in
     the manner of Oasis, this teenage quartet mix their Merseybeatisms (dig the
     jangly guitars and close harmonies of "Plastic Skull," which sounds like
     what the La's album might have if it had been properly finished, or "Like a
     Baby," which sounds exactly like an early Kinks B-side) with enough odd
     synth wiggles and snippets of feedback and noise to make it clear what
     decade this was recorded in. The lyrics are nothing special, but neither
     are they particularly dopey, and the amount of variety in the band's
     arrangements (the mix of William Campbell's electric and Charles Clark's
     acoustic guitar adds depth to their basic sound) and Edwyn Collins'
     production keeps Strange Weather Lately from sounding as samey as many
     other albums in this style. Strange Weather Lately found a fair amount of
     critical and commercial success in the U.K., but the fact that an album
     this melodically satisfying and sonically interesting could not find an
     American distributor simply boggles the mind.

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20M	01-astrid-kitchen_tv.flac
21M	02-astrid-plastic_skull.flac
21M	03-astrid-high_in_the_morning.flac
19M	04-astrid-zoo.flac
21M	05-astrid-standing_in_line.flac
18M	06-astrid-distance.flac
19M	07-astrid-bottle.flac
24M	08-astrid-redground.flac
15M	09-astrid-like_a_baby.flac
27M	10-astrid-stop.flac
18M	11-astrid-its_true.flac
23M	12-astrid-dusty.flac
17M	13-astrid-boat_song.flac
14M	14-astrid-boy_or_girl.flac
32M	15-astrid-w.o.p.r.m..flac
303M	total