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Working with Bat For Lashes producer David Kosten (aka Faultline), the recording of Man Alive was completed mainly in a chapel in North Wales. The album sounded unique. Nothing dates like the future, yet Man Alive sounds dateless, placeless, and as a result, stands up perfectly many years later. Man Alive was only the beginning of the group's adventures in – to use their words – 'Mismatched styles of music mashed together.'
The result is often exhilarating; there are Brazilian drums and a prog guitar breakdown in Schoolin', classical infuences, as well. Its subject matter is often way outside the realms of conventional songwriting; MY KZ, UR BF explored the different Americas: the cosyself-centred domesticity of programmes such as Friends versus a foreign policy based on killing; Qwerty Finger examines imperialism. Anglo Saxon guilt is also present.
Tracklist
2LP Tracklist :
MY KZ, UR BF
Qwerty Finger
Schoolin'
Leave The Engine Room
Final Form
Photoshop Handsome
Two For Nero
Suffragette Suffragette
Come Alive Diana
NASA Is On Your Side
Tin (The Manhole)
Weights
Luddites & Lambs
Suffragette Suffragette (2008 Single Version)
Crisis Over (Demo)
Come Alive Diana (Demo)
Hey Jude Law (Demo)
The Kids Are Obese (Demo)
Riot On The Ward
DNA Dump
Photoshop Handsome (2009 Single Version)
Even The Dogs
Hiawatha Doomed
Schoolin’ (Acoustic)
Wizard Talk
LP Tracklist:
MY KZ, UR BF
Qwerty Finger
Schoolin'
Leave The Engine Room
Final Form
Photoshop Handsome
Two For Nero
Suffragette Suffragette
Come Alive Diana
NASA Is On Your Side
Tin (The Manhole)
Weights