Ummm....didn't Jacqueline post something like this a while back??
> Who says long-distance relationships don’t work? When they
> released their debut album Demons in 2005, the members of
> Envelopes were living variously in Stockholm, Malmo and
> Paris. Somehow they managed to scrabble together enough
> time during school holidays to record their songs. We
> should rejoice at their persistence, that they refused to
> bow to geography, for three years on they’ve delivered a
> second album, Here Comes The Wind, that is a sumptuous
> miracle. Feral these songs roam, chasing us with their
> loose-limbed melodies, snapping at our ears with their
> frisky guitar and resolute rhythms.
>
> Rollicking opener ‘Party’ betrays the band’s love of the
> Pixies, Henrik Orrling and Audrey Pic doing the
> alternating boy/girl vocals thing, Ulf Höglund pumping the
> bass full of amp-humping menace and the guitars buzzing
> like bees around a discarded soft drink can. In addition
> they’ve even worked in a reference to poodle-haired
> warbler supreme Bonnie Tyler: “Once upon a time I was
> falling in love / now I’m only falling apart / totally
> fucked from the start.” Amazing.
>
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> Here Comes the Wind shares some of the same features.
> There are some brilliant pop songs like the post-punk
> agit-pop of ‘Freejazz’, where Audrey advises “make things
> happen/ provoke them!” ‘Smoke in the Desert, Eating the
> Sand, Hide in the Grass’ is life-enriching, combining more
> hooks than Abu Hamza’s spare parts store with a filthy,
> meandering bassline and shouty vocals. ‘Party’ has
> constantly itchy rhythms and is full of glossy pop
> splinters woven together, though I wonder if it was worth
> splitting the writing credit with Jim Steinman just so
> they could create the Bonnie Tyler pun: “totally fucked
> from the start”.
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