dutch release day GOS

[shackin'up]

Just popped in to express my feelings on GOS.

I played it all morning and it is amazing. Especially the coherence of the album is striking. I think UTS is perfection as an album, not a collection of songs, this one has the same quality, although I KNOW that they are not written in one timeslot. Lindsey's been saying that he didn't know where this album was going to, but since he brought in his touringband, it was going into a rockdirection. Well it did, but he only used Wally Reyes on two songs! DYMM and LRD! The rest is absent. He's done it all alone again except Mick and John on GOS and Wait For You, and Mick and John Pierce (bass) on RPTF. The rest is all Lindsey himself. Kudo's to the best rythmtrack he ever did himself, on Great Day, which is a friggin' awesome opener. It's a complex rythm against layered melodies in the chorus, it's open yet full, and still it swings and rocks like hell. And it has that staccato screaming solo that I expected from the clip. What a start. TPT is just a mindblowingly beautiful mantra, the guitarflourishes sound warmer than on UTS, and the meaning of this poem creeps under your skin. DYMM grew on me, and I'm glad that the bass in the song comes out alot better on CD. So he played bass himself again. Did You Miss Fritz? Wait For You has such a great ooomph. You're a monster John.
Like I hoped, LRD is Lindsey's own attempt to create a Wall Of Sound and it's wonderful. So glad he used strumming this time as a tool for upbeat joy and rockfeel, instead of transparent sunny layering. (UTS, Juniper). This is an instant radiohit, potentially. I love it.
BEl AIR RAIN!!! Well, what can I say. The acoustic Big Love meets Play In The Rain. What a great great track! My fave of the album and I just love the way he transfered the big big PITR-fairlight orchestra into an acoustic guitar-and vocaltrack. What an ending of a fantastic song!!!!
Right Place to Fade is still a goddamn FM-hit ! And I still wish GOS was a single. That fxcked-up voicepunksong would be the perfect attentiongrabber on radio these days, AND attract alternative-musiclovers. I still think he should have his own place in that "genre". This song fits in there! (so does this album by the way).

Underground is fabulous. I love the melody, the sweetness and the lyric. Burn Warner Brothers and Go Underground dude!
Treason, the closer, has slightly too much moralism in the lyric to my taste but it's a vulnerable and gutsy way to close the album with a "tiny bit over the top"-tearjerker. It'll grow on me like Walk a Thin Line did 29 years ago.
I was a fan then, I was a fan during the Vacuum-period, and I'm even a bigger fan now. These two albums in three years will mark an incredible boost in my fandom as well will they be received as Tusk-quality. In ten years.