electric soft parade - no need to be downhearted.
lost prophets you dont half speak some bollocks.
downloading it now. this is what they have to say about it:
1 – No Need To Be Downhearted (Part 1): We just figured that every band out there at the moment was rocking out on the first track of their album; it’s kind of a cliché these days to kick off an album with the most boisterous, loud piece you have, so we just thought, ‘fuck that!’. It sets a completely different tone, and immediately sets the record apart from pretty much every other rock band operating today.
2 – Life In The Backseat: A song about the long, slow death of a relationship. And the Blair-Bush axis, of course. The first ‘proper’ track on the album, and the first single, too. Not a bad Strokes impression, either.
3 – Woken By A Kiss: Self-destruction and shoegazing. Watching someone destroy themselves and being helpless. And getting a really fucking lush guitar sound. Krautrock outro, just for a laugh.
4 – If That’s The Case, Then I Don’t Know: An indie disco monster! Squelchy synth bass and guitar hooks, keyboard flitters and omni-chord swoops. If anything, the most instantly recognisable ESP track on the album.
5 – Shore Song: As with all of our records, the songs evolve, then a track listing evolves around that. It was always important to us to break up the first half of the record with something sweet alongside the heavier stuff, and this does its job perfectly.
6 – Misunderstanding: Probably the oldest song on the album. We’ve recorded it in different guises for three different labels, i think, and they always say, ‘That’s the single!’. Funny, that…
7 – Secrets: A revolving, unfurling mantra suddenly overwhelmed by somber brass. A requiem to a fucked world and the doomed plans of our sorry governments.
8 – Cold World: A piece of pure pop, and the only track taken from last year’s ‘The Human Body’ EP. Pianos, harmonies and a melody Burt Bacharach would do well to imitate. The most fully realised cut on the album, surely?
9 – Have You Ever Felt Like It’s Too Late?: Verse: why the fuck d’you have to leave me, I was having fun there, don’t leave me. Chorus: there’s a world out there, bye!
10 – Come Back Inside: Alex’s sole lead vocal provides the album’s most ethereal moment, invoking the American rattle of Calexico or The Dandy Warhols at their melancholy, hushed best. Also contains the best outro on the album.
11 – Appropriate Ending: This could be an appropriate ending. But it’s not.
12 – No Need to Be Downhearted (Part 2): What Matt Eaton of Actress Hands calls a ‘Chord Orchard’. Echoing the outro of ‘The Wrongest Thing In Town’ from ‘The American Adventure’, we wanted to end the record with a long instrumental crescendo, a final burst of colour. And this it it.
