專輯名稱：Drink & A Quick Decision
歌手姓名：Grand National
唱片公司：JVC Victor
發行日期：Sep 25, 2007
專輯流派：Rock/ Pop
The London, England duet Grand National offers neo-folk textures and dance club trots on their sophomore album A Drink And A Quick Decision, which follows their debut release Kicking The National Habit. Their music is melodic with acoustic guitar undertones and delightful chimes and synth effects that induce folk musings like The Thrills with embellishments of synth-pop circuitry and serried club beats. There are periods of Hot Chip's thump-funk and Jatun-powered space rock in the songs. The club beats and electro-pop glides show a new wave tinkering reminiscent of Scritti Politti, Talk Talk, and Yaz as the lounging voicing of lead singer and guitarist Rubert Lyddon adds to the music's consonance and appeal generated by synth maestro Lawrence La Rudd. It's music from the public's collective consciousness burrowed in new wave's annals, and yet there are contemporary treatments done to the synth barrages that relate a modern mode. It's music for the dance club crowd but there is also a contemplative feel in the music that allows the listener to reflect on what they are hearing in the songs.
The English duet has made a fanciful club-pop album that fits in any forum from large arenas to living room size nightclubs. It is music for the enjoyment of the masses and revitalizes what new wave artists were doing in the '80s. I may not be able to decipher a cosmic meaning for the lyrics but the music has a cosmic essence.
01 Reason to Hide in
02 Weird Ideas at Work
03 Animal Sounds
04 By the Time I Get Home There Won't Be Much of A Place for Me
05 Cut by the Brakes
06 Tongue
07 Going to Switch the Lights on
08 New Space to Throw
09 Joker and Clown
10 Close Approximation
11 Pack All the Things You Need
12 Part of A Corner
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