Single Of The Week - TURIN BRAKES : Mind Over Money

The New Acoustic Movement. What a rubbish idea. When do we get the New Bad Teeth Movement? The New Outdoor Plumbing Movement? The New Dead From Tuberculosis Before Turning 30 Movement? Yay! Sign me up for those weeping bedsores, dude! Having recently sat through endless snivelling strumathons by chunky-knit Oxbridge types calling themselves names like Don't Worry It's Just Justin And Neville, or Oh Dear My Name Is Dominic (Sorry), I'd always avoided Turin Brakes before now.


What an arse I was. Because this is fantastic, beatific, life-affirming stuff imagine Jeff Buckley's vaulting, post-folk delirium married to Mazzy Star's neo-rustic shimmer, almost sickeningly rich in melody, shot through with pin-drop emotional intensity and buzzing with an intelligently deployed background arsenal of 21st century technoid instrumentation. But then, you probably knew that already. Quality knitwear is going to be huge this autumn.


Stephen Dalton