It really isn’t difficult to work out why morale is low in Summer 2009. The capital markets are stalling, the banks are barely lending, the government appears to have little understanding of what happened or how to deal with it, and job losses are mounting. Incumbent politicians promise that things are getting better, but not in your city, where it still rains (despite what we were told by the weathermen) and everybody hunches against the wind and wonders where they are going. Bleak? It’s like a Joe Orton play out there.
But sometimes, rising like flowering blooms in a post-nuclear wasteland, come pieces of good news. They may not be much, but they give us hope that things may not always be this way. The first is a rather wonderful EP from the catchily monikered On Histories of Rosenberg.
As you’ve probably gathered from that name, it doesn’t sound much like Green Day. Instead, their slow, dreamy sounscapes evoke comparisons with Pink Floyd at their most pastoral and a less-opaque Elbow. They are extremely unlikely to have a singalong at a gig but are very much worth a look at. Head over to their myspace for more info.
The other good news is that Kasabian have been quarantined in Australia with suspected swine flu. Sadly, it seems that tamiflu has done the trick and they will be able to return to our shores soon to infect the rest of us with their belligerently stupid mixture of early 90’s Happy Monday’s riffs and a middle-class approximation of Liam Gallagher’s swagger. Perhaps we could petition parliament for an emergency law which leaves them on the other side of the world? I’d forgive the expense-fiddling scoundrels anything if they’d do that. Hell, chuck in Amy MacDonald and I’d be nominating them for canonisation.
So there you go. It’s not all bad out there.
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