Sunday, November 16, 2003
Avant Garde Music
OK, so there's not really a lot of point in showing the cover - 'sparse' was clearly the watchword for this design - but this is an album we'd like you all to rush out and buy. It's called The Sash My Father Wore and Other Stories and is by the always fab ballboy. This is their first acoustic album though, to be fair, even when they're electric they're hardly fighting for their position in the pantheon of Monsters of Rock.
It is an extremly lovely and beautiful collection of songs, highlights include a cover of Born in the USA, Kiss Me, Hold Me and Eat Me - a song about two cannibals in love and Stronger Hearts Than Mine Lie Empty which would be the best thing on the album, but is unfortunately far too short. The actual best thing on the album therefore is I Gave Up My Eyes to a Man Who Was Blind, which can be likened to Wham!'s Last Christmas, if Last Christmas wasn't a) a Christmas song, and b) irredeemably shit.
So, rush out and buy it! We can think of no better use for that thirteen quid sitting in your pocket. Unless you were planning on donating it to charity, which probably is a better use of your money than buying a CD, but then, if you're the sort of person who thinks nothing of donating thirteen quid to charity then you've probably got more money than you know what to do with so you might as well spend some of that excess on this.
