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As I hinted a couple of weeks back, a recent unexpected return to the world of retail has severely curtailed my online activities, as I am, to coin a phrase, making hay while the sun shines. Or, if you'd prefer it in plain speak, I'm grabbing every bit of overtime available. This might well mean that there'll be no traditional comprehensive end of year round up from Swede Towers this time around, or at least not this side of Christmas, though I'll do my best to pop up with at least a couple of short posts per week until the end of 2017. I'm also keenly aware that I'm unavoidably neglecting far too many of the fine blogs that are listed on the right hand side of this page, but I'll attempt to play catch-up as and when I'm able.
Meanwhile, here's a promising bunch of herberts to watch out for in 2018. There are 8 of 'em, they're from Cambridge, they're irritatingly young and they go by the name of Nervous Conditions. They've apparently garnered comparisons with The Fall and Captain Beefheart, but what do I know, I've only heard a couple of their tunes thus far. This particular performance of 'Village Mentality' stopped me dead in my tracks and prompted me to utter that most highly prized of all Swede-isms - it's a thoroughly splendid racket.
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4 comments:
Someone described this as a splendid racket. They're not wrong.
........even better than Leonard Cohen.........
Yes, definitely sound like they've been listening to the Fall, along with perhaps some early experimental Pink Floyd - it's weird to think that they are, as you so perfectly describe, so "irritatingly young"! (Another Swede-ism that should get more frequent use, I think.)
As for you, I do hope that the work is at least enjoyable as well as bringing in some extra dosh, and that you'll get to appreciate some more free time soon, once you've made that hay!
Retail, eh? That might mean hours of listening to holiday songs. I seem to recall not your favorite genre. Hopefully I’m wrong.
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