- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: Popup
Album: A Time & A Place
Label: Team Love
Playtime: 45:10 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.team-love.com
Rip date: 2009-05-07
Street date: 2009-05-05
Size: 65.84 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 190 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -
The debut album from the much talked-about glasgow 4 piece, which was
recorded during the course of a long year before gigs, after work, and late
at night. as a result it's an idiosyncratic and surprising listen, at times
pure rock'n'roll, at other times boy-girl harmonies that recall the delgados
or angular, stripped-back punk.
They've been described as arab strap on happy pills, and the owner of swg3
says 'they are brilliant - sharp, irreverent and deeply glaswegian'. this is
largely thanks to gilhooly's dark lyrics and his thickly accented delivery,
putting popup in the same league as frightened rabbit and the twilight sad.
with song titles such as 'stagecoach' and 'the first weekend of the smoking
ban,' gilhooly's grim tales are of bad chat-up lines at bus stops ("we shared
a cigarette / turns out he had tourettes") and betrayal between conjoined
twins. he happily finds ways to make "ginger rogers and fred astaire" rhyme
with "indie boys with their pretty hair".
Gilhooly says the essence of the band is the music he grew up with: prince,
deacon blue, nirvana and the fall, though "we're not influenced any more by
aidan moffat than we are by bob dylan".
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Love Triangle ( 5:09)
02. Poison Apple ( 2:35)
03. Stagecoach ( 3:40)
04. A Year In A Comprehensive ( 1:46)
05. The Saviour Of Judas McDad ( 5:10)
06. Dreams Like These ( 4:13)
07. Chinese Burn ( 2:34)
08. What's The Matter Now? ( 2:46)
09. The First Weekend Of The Smoking Ban ( 5:02)
10. Pure ( 2:24)
11. In Her Day ( 2:55)
12. Pull The Fuse ( 3:14)
13. Lucy, What You Trying To Say? ( 3:42)
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