Taken from their forthcoming collaboration, Two Sunsets, Glasgow’s The Pastels and Tokyo’s Tenniscoats double A-side is somewhat reminiscent of a British summer. Melancholic and maudlin, Gerard Love and Katrina Mitchell’s pastel coloured composition in ‘Vivid Youth’ is soft in texture and warm in heart, but a dreary attempt at soft pop. A cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘About You’ echoes with the same tender despondency as the original; yet with the saving addition of its graceful folk-furnished arrangements, bolsters what is a particularly lost in translation effort.
Monday, 27 July 2009
Single review: The Pastels/Tenniscoats – ‘Vivid Youth/About You’. For Supersweet.org
Taken from their forthcoming collaboration, Two Sunsets, Glasgow’s The Pastels and Tokyo’s Tenniscoats double A-side is somewhat reminiscent of a British summer. Melancholic and maudlin, Gerard Love and Katrina Mitchell’s pastel coloured composition in ‘Vivid Youth’ is soft in texture and warm in heart, but a dreary attempt at soft pop. A cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘About You’ echoes with the same tender despondency as the original; yet with the saving addition of its graceful folk-furnished arrangements, bolsters what is a particularly lost in translation effort.
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