Artist: XX Teens
Title: Welcome To Goon Island
Label: Mute
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 194kbit av.
Time: 00:38:05
Size: 57.35 mb
Rip Date: 2008-07-08
Str Date: 2008-07-28
1. The Way We Were 3:48
2. B-54 3:19
3. Round 3:03
4. Ba (Ba-Ba-Ba) 2:56
5. Onkawara 3:27
6. (Reprise) 0:43
7. Only You 2:23
8. My Favourite Hate 4:21
9. Darlin 4:12
10. Sun Comes Up 4:05
11. For Brian Haw 5:48
Release Notes:
Somewhat of a metaphor for Britain, Welcome To Goon Island
is born from the great British Art School tradition, the core
of the band having met at art college in Sothend; vivid,
interesting, expansive and far-reaching, an aesthetic that
seeps into everything they do from their other-worldly videos
via intriguing photos to extra curricular activities such as
training dogs to dance. Yet such apparent frippery shouldnt
disguise their uncanny ability to pen rather fine songs, as
Welcome To Goon Island attests.
Previous singles such as Onkawara, DarlinÆ and How To
Reduce The Chances Of Being A Terror Victim have already seen
them bag single of the week slots in NME, praise from the
likes of Zane on Radio1, front covers of Artrocker and a slot
in the NMEs tracks of 2007 list. And with Welcome To Goon
Island, XX Teens look set to bring a bit of depth &
technicolour joy into the sometime hegemonic drabness of the
current musical landscape.
The album was produced by with Ross Orton (Fat Truckers, MIA,
Bromheads Jacket, Kid Acne) in Sheffield at the end of 2007. A
joyous and innovative record which rumbles, rolls & swings
coming to an end with the swirling psychedelia of Sun Comes Up
and a moving eulogy for Brian Haw.