Aug 18 2006
New Light Footwork: ‘Melville’
Boy, someone has sure been drinking their Pavement juice. While The Light Footwork’s album from earlier this year, ‘One State Two State’ featured a bunch of Pavement and Malkmus influences, it was also heavily coated in other weird and wacky pop like that of Beulah. ‘Melville’ sounds like something that wouldn’t have seemed out of place on ‘Crooked Rain Crooked Rain’ or ‘Wowee Zowee’ though.
I lost count of how many times the pace of this song jumps from slow to fast or there’s a key change. It’s continually surprising through all of it’s five minute running time. The vocals are all over the place too, moving from restrained one minute to urgent the next. It doesn’t make a great deal of sense as a song, but since when has that ever mattered? It sounds good and is a lot of fun to listen to, and it’s nice to see bands not afraid to throw a little insanity into the proceedings.
If you’re still not familiar with The Light Footwork, you’re really missing out on something special. ‘One State Two State’ has proved to be one of the finest albums from this year, and with new songs like this, it looks as if that was no fluke. It’s baffling to me how these guys don’t have a proper record deal by now, but that’s the crazy nature of the industry I guess.
MP3 The Light Footwork - Melville (expired)
The Light Footwork have also released a video for ‘The Art Of Everyday Communication Part 1′, the best song on ‘One State Two State’. You can watch it here on Youtube.
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