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| Artist : The Real Tuesday Weld |
| Album : The Return Of The Clerkenwell Kid (Advance) |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : Six Degrees Records |
| Year : 2005 |
| Genre : Electronic |
| Ripper : Kournikova |
| Rip date : 2005-05-11 |
| Store date : 2005-06-21 |
| Size : 72 megs |
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| 1. Waking Up (Intro) 0:34 |
| 2. Anything But Love 3:30 |
| 3. On Lavender Hill 3:54 |
| 4. At The House Of The Clerkenwell Kid 3:28 |
| 5. L'amour Et La Marte 4:11 |
| 6. Bruises 1:35 |
| 7. Turn On The Sun Again 3:37 |
| 8. Close Your Eyes When You Read This 1:25 |
| 9. Daisies 4:17 |
| 10. Something Beautiful 5:17 |
| 11. Deja Vu 2:06 |
| 12. The Birds And The Bees 4:00 |
| 13. Little White Birds 2:35 |
| 14. I Love The Rain 4:13 |
| 15. Asteroids 4:17 |
| 16. Goodbye Stephen 3:29 |
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| Welcome back to the world of The Real Tuesday Weld, a.k.a. British |
| singer-songwriter and audio provocateur Stephen Coates. Wedding the |
| suggestive hiss of ancient shellacs and vintage radio transmissions to |
| the latest samples, loops and glitchy beats on his second Six Degrees |
| Records release, The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid, The Real Tuesday |
| Weld brings us to a place where warmth and light chase away the grey |
| English skies. a place where melody and swing never went out of style, |
| and where anonymity is practically impossible. |
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| Originally inspired by a dream of Greek bandleader Al Bowlly and actress |
| Tuesday Weld, Coates found his inspiration to create music unafraid to |
| be lush and fabulous and willing to tickle the ear with textures and |
| timbres. As The Real Tuesday Weld, Coates doesn't hesitate to put those |
| sounds to subversive use much like some of his most illustrious |
| forebears and influencesùsuch as Serge Gainsbourg and Ennio Morricone. |
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| The Real Tuesday Weld's first Six Degrees release, I, Lucifer, was |
| conceived as no less than a companion piece to Glen Duncan's novel of |
| the same name, a mischievous view of the Devil's take on humanity. As |
| the devil's advocate, so to speak, The Real Tuesday Weld created music |
| described by W magazine as "oddball electronica-goes-Tin Pan Alleyà a |
| hit of aural Ecstasy with a champagne chaser." Writing in The New York |
| Times, Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields admired the album's blend |
| of "accordion ballads and dance floor fodder," calling it "fun for |
| actually listening too." Putting his money where his pen was, Merritt |
| has since taken The Real Tuesday Weld out on the road with him in |
| Europe. |
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| The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid is no less audacious in its potent |
| mixture of classic and modern sounds and styles. In fact, the album's |
| songs actually cover a much wider stylistic range, extending beyond |
| cabaret and swing to embrace breezy bossa nova, classic pop and gentle |
| psychedeliaùadding Joπo Gilberto, Martin Denny, Brian Wilson and the |
| Beatles to the sonic mix. |
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| The album's title refers to a mysterious character who has turned up on |
| each of The Real Tuesday Weld's projects to date. "He's a mythological |
| figure that I met in Clerkenwell one night, when I was tripping," he |
| explained in a recent interview. "I kind of, in my mind, built up this |
| whole image of him. I only met him once; when I was making the album, I |
| felt I was inhabiting that imageà an alter-ego, I suppose!" |
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| The subject matter of The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid no less |
| provocative than that of its more overtly literary predecessor. Like |
| most artistsùhell, like most of us at one time or anotherùThe Real |
| Tuesday Weld is preoccupied with love through much of the album. Still, |
| he can't ever quite extract that emotion from its fragile coexistence |
| with another condition: life. |
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