Ok Chaps - happy new year - here we go...
The DHS-LP folder is now open (link to follow separately) and will remain so until 1st February - within that time you simply need to choose an album and deposit it, in its entirety, in the folder.
I've kicked it off with;
Interpol - Antics
In somewhat typical fashion I was given a copy of this in 2004 by a bloke at work who raved about it whilst I simply wasn't interested, so I sat on it for ages. And ages. In fact, around that time, a bunch of people from work organised tickets to go and see Coldplay playing Crystal Palace arena one evening - I got roped in and actively persuaded everyone to stay in the pub for another drink or two when a couple of them wanted to go and see the support band playing their latest album - thanks to me we all turned up just as Interpol were being massively applauded off stage. Then the CD I'd been given surfaced a couple of years later one rainy summer's afternoon when I was 'working from home' - I played it and was, once again, humbled. Mightily humbled.
There's nothing about it that I should like really and yet I absolutely adore every last single second of it. One of those very rare instances where every single damn track on the album is just as good as all the others. Lyrically it's always been far too dense for me to penetrate - but that has never once bothered me. Musically I'm at a bit of a loss to describe it - this sort of thing isn't usually my style so I'm limited in terms of comparisons - in fact, I'm not going to bother - if you've not heard it before then click and see what you think.
Right up there in my all-time favourite albums and one of the best 'driving-fast-alone-in-the-car-'singing'-very-loudly-albums' ever.
S
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