The front cover of this week's London 'Time Out' has the word "Jawdropping" on it (referring to the new Planet of the Apes movie). Plugging in Slow Club's 'Total Surrender' has much the same effect. The duo's ability to change their sound could be best described as "Jawdropping".
A very sweet and soulful LP is Sweet Surrender, with Rebecca Taylor's vocals up there with the best. It would be interesting to know what has been on their car stereo for the past six months, you can only imagine, both driving around Philadelphia with the sun shining and the windows wound down and the local 'rnb' radio station on at full blast. Perhaps that was what happen, only in Sheffield.
But that is the heart of the matter, for whatever the sea change in sound the heart and soul of Slow Club remains intact. Songs are still about love and loss, they just sound glamorously bigger. It is going to be interesting to see how Charles and Rebecca pull these songs off Live.
A band certainly not standing still, enjoy this fabulous record all summer long!
Pete
9/11
1. Tears Of Joy
2. Everything Is New
3. Suffering You, Suffering Me
4. Not Mine To Love
5. The Pieces
6. Number One
7. The Queen's Nose
8. Complete Surrender
9. Paraguay and Panama
10. Dependable People And Things That I'm Sure Of
11. Wanderer Wandering
12. Don't Call Me Kid
13. Not Mine To Love (Acoustic)
14. Wanderer Wandering (Acoustic)