Home-recorded between 1989-90 at Jowe Head\u2019s Stoke Newington flat, Beautiful Despair <\/i>finds Head and TVPs mainstay Dan Treacy gamely working through a clutch of the latter\u2019s prickly and pallid compositions.<\/p>\n
Treacy\u2019s gift has always been the ability to locate implicit depths in apparent shallows, so I Get Frightened Too shivers with exquisite frailty, while the chaotic double-tracked vocal in Have A Nice Day insinuates a sinister interior monologue which rather negates the perky top line.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the whimsical Goodnight Mr Spaceman \u2013 like a Teenage Opera <\/i>offcut artlessly recited by Jilted John \u2013 alludes to mental turmoil on closer inspection: \u201cThey gave me amitriptyline, but it didn\u2019t do very much good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Treacy\u2019s pop culture smarts surface in the form of discreetly borrowed refrains from Femme Fatale (I Like That In A Girl), Treason (Hard Luck Story Number 39) and So Sad About Us, the latter set-dressing the leprosy glam of Love Is A Four Letter Word. A definite highlight, that one, strutting brokenly out of the gate and slackly punching the air while dropping its chips.<\/p>\n
The fact that How Does It Feel To Be Loved suggests a bedsit dream of New Order reveals that the TVPs might even have had hits in a fair world, whatever that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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