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February 21, 2005

the wedding present :: take fountain

If you've never heard the Wedding Present - who, in their heyday, were one of the crowning indie guitar-pop bands - this is as good a place as any to start. The formula is an appealing combination of Dinosaur Jr. classicist chord changes, hyperactive Mancunian beats, and more than a hint of the Mozzer in the vocals. If you're like me, an aging former fan who lost track of them around the last couple of albums in the mid-90s, you'll find this to be one of the comforting surprises of the year. They're back! Go straight to the downloads and turn up loud.

I have to admit to never hearing Cinerama, the band that David Gedge formed immediately after retiring the Wedding Present name. Some reviews suggest this is closer to a Cinerama album than a classic Weddoes platter, but no matter to me. It sounds like a very slight taming and updating of the old sound to me.

The Wedding Present trademark is the way a tune explodes - an extra notch of guitar, an unexpected cadence or both - and that's the case for each track here. Sometimes it comes late or in a small way, but it's always there. There's no better example than the opener, "Interstate 5", which set my expectations high - too high - with its Seamonsters-esque build, build, build and blowout. "Suck" or "Dalliance" fans, take note. There's an ill-advised Calexico "Return of the Mariachi" coda, but by then you need a break.

The rest of the disc traverses the well-known map from pop gems to slower numbers. This is a breakup album, which was apparently the motive for bringing back the Wedding Present name, so fans who are down their luck will hold the lyric sheet close. It's all put very simply, and it skirts bathos. But there's a place for lyrics like "watching you walk back to your car/was the lowest point of my life so far" - it's locker room bulletin board material for the Lonelyhearts All-Stars.

Things slow down a bit too much toward the end - the more pedestrian ideas are stuck there, though still above-average in quality, and the overall impression is helped by the merciful 10 song length. As you'll hear over and over again on Borrowed Tunes: 12 song max. is almost always the rule.

Every piece of criticism I've read about this disc is about whether or not the reviewer wanted to hear any more from The Wedding Present. The review in the British magazine Uncut at least goes a ways toward explaining the unique appeal of the band:

Sure, Morrissey will always be untouchable because he makes the fact you sleep alone feel like some perversely poetic martyrdom. But only Gedge can articulate the misery of seeing your ex being pawed by some bastard called Kevin . . . [the disc] plays like a fortysomething update of the adolescent angst The Wedding Present once pedalled [sic].

~~Interstate 5 [Extended Version] (mp3)~~
~~I'm From Further North Than You (mp3)~~

Posted by borrowed_tunes at February 21, 2005 09:59 PM

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Wasn't this Nick Cave's band or somefing?

Also, if I recall properly, Interstate 5 does not run through the Manc. I'm hence quite, quite baffled.

Posted by: Max at February 22, 2005 11:06 AM

You bring up something I meant to mention in my comments: the album was recorded at least partially in Seattle (beautifully, by Steve Fisk), and he puts the place into the songs . . . I-5 is in Seattle, and there's a song called "Ringway to Seatac", referring to the airport. So it's not very English in that respect. Kind of strange to hear a Brit singing about the Pacific Northwest.

Nick Cave fronted The Birthday Party . . . excellent name confusion!

Posted by: borrowed_tunes at February 22, 2005 12:04 PM

As a Bostonian, I'm personally offended then that they didn't sing about I-90, which begins in Boston and ends in Seattle. They could have done that for us, at the very least.

Posted by: Max at February 22, 2005 01:58 PM

We'll have to lean on Sweet Baby James Taylor and Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers for songs about the Mass Pike.

Posted by: borrowed_tunes at February 22, 2005 02:11 PM

I'll stick with Mr. Richman. You can keep JT for yourself.

Posted by: Max at February 23, 2005 11:00 AM

Mmm. I like Further North a lot.
Thanks
Tx

Posted by: Trixie at February 27, 2005 01:43 PM

borrowed tunes

it's only music.

February 21, 2005

the wedding present :: take fountain

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