It's Christmas Eve (unless you're in Australia, Japan, China, Middle East...) and here is a present from me to you all. ...Undone is a stone cold classic from the dark corners of everyones past. You might not have known that The Lucy Show even existed back in the day, so here's you chance to get aquainted. Across both my blogs I've been dropping little bits of The Lucy Show here and there...maybe you've seen one and curiosity got the better of you, maybe you haven't. So here, on Christmas Eve it's your chance to click on the link, download yourself a moment of pleasure. Relax with a glass of your favourite alcoholic tipple, have a bitesize chocolate or two, and enjoy.
This is like the 1979-1981 heyday years of English
post-punk pop brought back and updated. Undone glistens and shimmers like a
pool rippling with subconscious sensations. The two main songwriters/singers,
Mark Bandola and Rob Vandeven, are apparently from Canada, but moved to London
to take part in the scene that gave us a more ethereal wash of sound than
anything Western Canada would know anything about. Their relocation has worked
like gangbusters. "Ephemeral (This Is No Heaven)," the title track,
"The White Space," and others hold a music fan spellbound in their
textural beauty, the latest to take advantage of the endless brooding, moody
undercurrents the best Brit-rock has been full of since Magazine, Joy Division,
the early Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sad Lovers and Giants, and many others.
And the songwriting is top-notch, too; you get the feeling these people know
their classic ‘60s rock and pop too, and sneak in some of that great melodic
sweetness to go with the shimmer and shake. Take this, the Sound's Shock of
Daylight and Heads and Hearts, and the Chameleons' What Does Anything Mean?
Basically, and 1985 has provided for you every quiet and inner sensation that
you ever felt. Masterpieces all, but again, this is the most important of the
four, since it’s the only one that’s a first album. Remarkable. Also
remarkable: unlike the above, somehow the band got a U.S. deal with major
distribution.