Artist : The Electric Soft Parade
Album : No Need To Be Downhearted
Label : Truck Records
Genre : Indie
Bitrate : 184 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 00:48:57 (68.9MB)
Rls date : 2007-03-27
Store date : 2007-04-30
[Track List]
1. No Need To Be Downhearted (Part 1) 2:04
2. Life In The Backseat 3:08
3. Woken By A Kiss 5:57
4. If That's The Case, Then I Don't Know 4:57
5. Shore Song / Surfacing 4:25
6. Misunderstanding 3:37
7. Secrets 3:46
8. Cold World / Starry Night #1 5:32
9. Have You Ever Felt Like It's Too Late? 3:28
10.Come Back Inside 3:50
11.Appropriate Ending 3:01
12.No Need To Be Downhearted (Part 2) 5:12
To form a supergroup when you're still in your twenties?
Slightly outrez wouldn't you say? Ok, well it is quite
presumptive but if you have the talent to back it up,
hell, why not! Kind of what brothers Tom and Alex White of
the Electric Soft Parade did when they teamed up with
Eamon Hamilton (he of British Sea Power) and Marc Beatty
to form indie supergroup Brakes, but it hasn't meant
they've been shirking their Soft Parade commitments.
They've a new album set for release in April and single
from it "If That's The Case Then I Don't Know"... And why
not spread their prodigious talents far and wide? These
boys can play and write, they can even produce.
From their debut album in 2002 Holes In The Wall, which
was Mercury nominated, to the futuristic rock of the
completely analogue follow-up The American Adventure, to
The Human Body EP out at the tail end of 2005. Which
brings us to 2007 and No Need To Be Downhearted on which
the brothers claim to have appropriated all the sounds and
techniques of Abbey Road without going anywhere near the
studios, some feat.
There's been minimum money and minimum resources spent on
the album, it's a real DIY effort with every instrument,
all the engineering and production done by the brothers
themselves. It's a DIY release in a very pure sense, but,
low-fi, we are promised, it ain't.