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Artist: The Music Lovers
Album: Masculine Feminine
Label: Le Grand Magistery/Cargo
Playtime: 37:40 min
Genre: Indie
URL:
Rip date: 2009-04-17
Street date: 2009-03-17
Size: 54.53 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 192 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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æMasculine FeminineÆ is the third long-playing record from acclaimed San
Francisco-based pop-sophisticates The Music Lovers and the pinnacle of their
artistic endeavors. The Music Lovers are led by transplanted Englishman
songwriter Matthew Edwards. Edwards refers to æMasculine FeminineÆ as his own
personal æDay of the LocustÆ, a travelogue through the underbelly of the
almost-famous doyens of LA and San Francisco.
Like a toxic Graham Greene on a tear, Edwards speaks of motels, love-affairs,
addictions, vamps and ingΘnues, pausing on occasion to look back on a half
remembered England and wonder what went wrong (or right)? These are desperate
songs born of need and frustration, but never dreary, never self-pitying.
Rather, they show a formidable spirit of abandon û an abandon to the pop
aesthetic; saddling the darkest sensibilities and wickedest proclivities to
the sweetest pop-song frame-works. The music? The girl-group sound on a
dreary Tuesday morning in 1976à quietly exultant on a radio in Birmingham.
Serge and Stax and The Go-Betweens and Dusty and Lerner and Lowe, dammit! If
David Goodis had written lyrics for Carole King they might have sounded a
little like this record. Yes, they are all ælove songsÆ but not only to
people, but places, states of mind and to divine release.
æMasculine FeminineÆ is battered, inebriate, sensual and defiantly and
unfashionably romantic! Praise for The Music Lovers: ôGin-spritzed string
arrangements and cocktail-bar melancholy, [that comes] off like a Rat Pack
version of Lloyd Cole.ö û WORD ôHints of '60s AM-radio fodder regularly poke
through the creamy, dreamy layers of piano, acoustic guitar, concertina,
strings and mellotron, and the results are seductive.ö - MAGNET ôThe Music
Lovers sound is lush and voluptuous, making me think of clouds and rain,
strings and guitars, both orchestral and earthy, akin to the sublime pleasure
of holding your head in my lap, oh my beautiful one.ö
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01. The Blackout ( 3:13)
02. Saturday ( 3:36)
03. Bobbie Gentry ( 2:36)
04. Masculine Feminine ( 3:14)
05. Autumn Royal ( 3:26)
06. Coburn & Robards ( 2:04)
07. A Word From Your Fashion Editor ( 2:36)
08. The Wherewithal ( 3:23)
09. A Gir From Space ( 3:46)
10. L'Amor Parodie ( 3:24)
11. The Weekender ( 3:07)
12. Epilogue: The Land of the Beautiful Girls ( 3:15)
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