Beulah – If We Can Land A Man On The Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart

A day late thanks to those useless cretins at Virgin Media, we have Beulah’s wonderfully titled If We Can Land A Man On The Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart. Taken from their 1999 (and now impossible to find) album When Your Heartstrings Break, I inevitably found the band far too late to do any good seeing as they were already in the process of breaking up when I caught on. The band started on Elephant 6 Records, something that is instantly recognisable from their sound. This song introduced the more “mid-fi” (as the band put it) sound of Beulah, adding in strings and horns to their originally rough sound. As for the song, is it a direct comment on their critics and fans? Or an analogy for love? Maybe both?