The Wave Pictures: AEM083 The Wave Pictures
Album Description
A-side “Just Like a Drummer”, from the band’s Moshi Moshi debut Instant Coffee Baby, is a lovely, lazy pop song, the kind in which The Wave Pictures specialize, complete with strumming that’s muted on the backbeats and charmingly amateurish gang vocals that lend the end of the song an air of hugeness without overwhelming the song (the WPs songs are full of this kind of vocals; they sound like a first take of a bunch of friends clustered half-drunk around a microphone).
B-side “Strawberry Cables” also manages to be intriguingly oblique, melding what appear to be images of a lonely fat kid eating candy in front of the TV (a lifetime without hips has two potential meanings here) with a chorus that makes the whole thing sound like a song of lost love. The line the world might hate me but it revolves around me now is one of the little revelatory moments that Tattersall excels at slipping into his songs, encapsulating the impulse nearly every aimless act of teenage violence.
AEM083 The Wave Pictures by The Wave Pictures is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.