We found god, in a Wiltshire field...

[glenatron]

Today I bought the new British Sea Power single. I have no idea how good it is- their music is such a fine and pure confection that it is hard to judge on first taste - but it is more British Sea Power and that is something that I crave as an opium eater craves opium. Apparently they were brushing the edges of the top ten in the midweek chart so if there aren't too many teenage girls out buying the latest hits of FlyBuster or whoever it is these days ( Fightstar? ) there is a slim chance of them sneaking towards the top. I don't really care about the charts but I do care about BSP and I would like as many people to hear them as possible because any right thinking person who listens to their music will come to love it.

In turn that will be a great help when I assume the power that is my right as the hard work of deciding which part of the population to cull will have been done for me. British Sea Power fans, on the right. Everyone else- the ravening bears are just down that way...

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[life-of-tom.livejournal.com]

i keep hearing the british sea power single on six music as well- it's growing on me, and i begin to think i've underestimated them. I can't help but feel they sound very familiar, when i hear one of their songs. of course, that can be either a good thing or a bad thing; i always think that the best music is very good at insinuating itself into the musical landscape; it becomes hard to think of it having not been there. of course, this is what makes derivative idiots think they're creating works of genius. think of it as the equivalent of industrial by-products, or the skanky residue that melting all the impurities out of iron leaves behind...

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Slag!

Not you, the iron by-products.

What makes them special is what they are as much as what they sound like. I've read one review of the album that says listening to it is a bit like going for a walk in the country. It's nice to hear a band that are happy to be coming up from the winding narrow lanes rather than trying to sound like they come up from the streets. I like to think that in Sequoia we find a happy medium by sounding like we're coming up from suburbia...