Earlier this year, The Wave Pictures released the utterly fantastic Instant Coffee Baby, TLOBF’s official Album Of The Year Thus Far, and although that’s probably on some level a compromise between the more-passionately loved (or not loved) Fleet Foxes and Johnny Foreigner, its still got some pretty incredible songs on. Witty, ramshackle, vague air of drunkenness, inadequacy and lust… yeah, The Wave Pictures do the whole Literate British Indie-Rock thing to its finest degree.
So this new EP is pretty cool. Basically I guess just five offcuts backing ‘Just Like A Drummer’, an odd choice for a single because its arguably the closest thing the album has to a weak track but STILL, in terms of extra-to-album EPs its not quite ‘Fluorescent Grey’ but what it is is five solid slices of pure Wave Pictures, again relative to the rest of their canon definable in terms of what they’re *not*- they’re not ‘Now You Are Pregnant’, ‘We Dress Up Like Snowmen’, ‘Long Island’, ‘Strange Fruit For David’, etc etc but yeah they’re good.
Essentially what this EP offers is More Wave Pictures, and that’s a really good thing. For the uninitiated, its nowhere near as good an introduction as the album, and for the haters (honestly though, how could you? Is something wrong with you?) its not going to make you change your mind. For the rest of us though, just stick on ‘Dust Off Your Heart’ and smile. :)
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August 5th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I love this band but I think all their new recordings suck, sadly.