ARTIST: The Indelicates
TITLE: American Demo
LABEL: Weekender Records
GENRE: Indie
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 160 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 54:10
RELEASE DATE: 2008-00-00
RIP DATE: 2008-04-26
Track List
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1. New Art Theme 1:27
2. The Last Significant Statement 5:05
To Be Made In Rock'n'Roll
3. Our Daughters Will Never Be 2:44
Free
4. Better To Know 3:22
5. Sixteen 3:44
6. Julia, We Don't Live In The 3:26
'60s
7. Stars 4:44
8. New Art For The People 4:53
9. Unity Mitford 4:49
10. ... If Jeff Buckley Had Lived 4:49
11. America 4:18
12. Heroin 4:47
13. We Hate The Kids 3:45
14. Untitled (Bonus Track) 2:17
Release Notes:
Nothing against Tweepop of course, which is going on its journey in its own
rebellious way, but this is the underground REALLY sticking it to what's lax in
the modern creative world. American Demo is a broad set of tracks which spit
immaculate bile here, vintage melodies there, and its very first track is a
musical statement if ever I've heard one, Julia Indelicate (a founder member of
The Pipettes, incidentally) etching out a violin contrapuntal to make the hairs
stand on end.
Julia's Indelicates partner Simon is a former performance poet, and he unleashes
The Last Significant Statement to be Made in Rock 'n' Roll with a cuttingly
poetic, disdainful passion, berating the modern capitalist and philistine arts
scene to a repetitive guitar and drum beat before it all explodes into melodies
that rub the band's anger down deep.
The melodies on American Demo are often sweet despite the lyrical content. Our
Daughters Will Never Be Free has handclap rhythms to drool at, taking the track
off on a happy jig that the current members of The Pipettes could dance too, but
of course there's barbs underneath, and as it happily blazes along we get
Julia's bitingly sarcastic refrain of "let's just be pretty, let's just be
beautiful, let's just be retro and disco and twee, we don't like the song so we
can't sing along and our daughters will never be free".
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