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Roseability (Food)
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Hardly an ideal situation where the best single of the week is the third down the line excerpt from a been-around-a-bit album by a stolid group of trad guitar manglers, but hell, sometimes life's like that: familiar, comfy, maybe a little bit convenient. And be honest, you can't be kicking over the traces every day of the w...
Hang on, is this really what Idlewild sound like now?! A genius marriage of The Smiths, The Wedding Present, er, Mission Of Burma, New Order and... The Smiths??!! Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab, but this is one dandy pop song. Long gone is the self-conscious mosh manoeuvering, well in is a motorik groove sensibility, suffused with the keen-eyed wisdom of shop-soiled youth. "Stop looking through scrap books and photograph albums"rasps the boy Woomble in the bit of the song where he doesn't actually sound like Morrissey, "'Cos I know they don't teach you what you don't already know/You'll always be dissatisfied" before the genius call and response routine: "Gertrude Stein said that's enough (I know that that's not enough now)" . So far beyond the band's prosaic beginnings it's scarcely credible, yet suffused with that same splenetic zeal that always made Idlewild the acceptable face of neo-fraggle rock (ask yer dad), 'Roseability' serves both as a rabbit-punch to the head of agnostics and a celebratory three-and-a-half minutes of safe, predictable, wholly generic, utterly brilliant rock 'n' roll.
KEiTH CAMERON
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