Welcome to Condale
曲目リスト
1 | Better Off Without You |
2 | Brian Krakow |
3 | I Want You |
4 | Losing My Mind |
5 | Summer Camp |
6 | Nobody Knows You |
7 | Down |
8 | Welcome to Condale |
9 | Done Forever |
10 | Last American Virgin |
11 | Ghost Train |
12 | 1988 |
商品の説明
Working with Pulp’s Steve Mackey, Summer Camp have gone from dabbling in nostalgic golden tones to painting with a whole vibrant palette of colour. There’s the claustrophobic menace of “I Want You”, for instance, with its shuddering synths and dangerously obsessional lyrics (“If I could I’d squeeze your hand so tight that every knuckle would crack/ I’d wrap my arms around you and snap every bone in your back”), while, on the opposite end of the spectrum, “Losing My Mind” marries an infectious, whistle-worthy chorus with a tale of love gone sour, with Warmsley and Sankey singing “well this house isn’t big enough for the both of us/ if you want to leave, I suppose you must”. “Welcome to Condale” meanwhile, with its protagonist’s grand dreams of small town escape, is simultaneously aching and romantic, its underlying sense of melancholia only spurred on by Warmsley’s C86 indebted, elided guitar strokes.
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- 製品サイズ : 12.5 x 14.2 x 1 cm; 81.65 g
- メーカー : Apricot Recording Company
- EAN : 5060164953302
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- レーベル : Apricot Recording Company
- ASIN : B005N6D936
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トップレビュー
上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
ポップでノスタルジックな雰囲気の曲揃い
聞きやすいのはもちろん、ボーカルのエリザベスがとにかくうまい!(余談ですが容姿もかなりいいです)
youtubeにいくつかライブ映像もあがっていますが、音源よりさらにうまくてびっくり
そしてアルバム発売後にはコスメティックブランドとのコラボで曲を発表
今度、どう伸びていくのか期待大です
ポップでノスタルジックな雰囲気の曲揃い
聞きやすいのはもちろん、ボーカルのエリザベスがとにかくうまい!(余談ですが容姿もかなりいいです)
youtubeにいくつかライブ映像もあがっていますが、音源よりさらにうまくてびっくり
そしてアルバム発売後にはコスメティックブランドとのコラボで曲を発表
今度、どう伸びていくのか期待大です
まだ聞いてないやつ、おいてかれないで!
噛めば噛むほど味が出るアルバムです。ボーカルも2人がそれぞれとってます。
こういう新人をプッシュしないで誰を推すよー。
他の国からのトップレビュー
2020年3月10日にフランスでレビュー済み
It arrived very promptly and well packaged.
So what happens? Well in the case of erstwhile NME contributor Elizabeth Sankey { for it is she } they go and make endearing records, that's what!
The Summer Camp project, Sankey's joint enterprise in tandem with musician husband Jeremy Warmsley, has thus far produced a myriad of singles and e.p's, a documentary soundtrack, and three very likeable albums. Generally considered their best work, 'Welcome To Condale', a concept album of sorts immediately evokes celluloid images of 80's middle American suburbia where skateboards rule the sun kissed sidewalks, every night is 'Prom', and all the teenagers look 25.
This is a time and place that the Summer Camp duo are clearly in thrall to and this is lovingly recreated in the imaginary town setting of the title track, where if you listen carefully there sits a smart 'Poltergeist' reference. Delightful opening track 'Better Off Without You' wastes no time in whisking you back to a world of ridiculous outfits that no self respecting teen would ever be seen dead in, and where wooden dance moves are performed to Tiffany, Jane Wiedlin, and Laura Branigan's 'Gloria' booming from shoulder propped beat boxes.
As usual Sankey is in fine voice, particularly on 'I Want You' and the track that bears the duo's name. Warmsley certainly knows how to construct a good tune as 'Brian Krakow and 'Down' confirms, but sometimes the cheese can begin to grate, with 'Losing My Mind ' and 'Last American Virgin' the glaring culprits. But when it's good it's really good {'Done Forever'} and most importantly fun { '1988' }. "Open Your Heart" to the latter track { See what I did there? } and the memories will come back at you thick and fast; Jon Cryer's bad hair, Molly Ringwald's sulky pout, Matthew Broderick's smug face, and lest we forget, Judd Nelson's flared nostrils.
I would have to disagree that this is Summer Camp's finest moment. That honour goes to the eponymous follow up where the duo's vision truly bears fruit, and the consistency of the material is far superior. Like 2015's 'Bad Love', 'Welcome To Condale' falls marginally short of their sophomore effort, and it's telling that one of the strongest songs here, 'Ghost Train' was salvaged from the earlier 'Young' e.p.
It's patently clear that Sankey and Warmsley are a gifted couple, but questions must be raised as to how much further they can milk their pet obsession when such a pairing are so obviously capable of turning out something of genuine substance. In the meantime enjoy and make the most of their infectious output, but it will be fascinating to see where they are by 2020.