" Well I left home just a week before
And I'd never ever kissed a woman before
But Lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said dear boy I'm gonna make you a man"

Yeah, totally agree. It also makes for a pretty fitting description of a certain Noel sung tune which was one of the many, many outtakes. Maybe it'll make the next one!

Completely drenched in sweat after freaking out to Arcade Fire for a while. A black room, headphones on full volume, and these tunes:

1. Reflektor
2. Keep the Car Running
3. Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
4. Here Comes the Night Time I
5. Black Mirror
6. It's Never Over (Hey Orpheus)
7. Rebellion (Lies) 
8. Wake Up
9. No Cars Go
10. My Body is a Cage

Equals the best therapy going. 

I thought the whole song was TBH

^^ Post is scuppered now if you already have heard of Divine Comedy. And you've heard the record before and thought it were shit haha.

Ever felt like you consume music too quickly because you need to have an opinion on everything? Especially the "classics"?

Slow down lads! There's nothing wrong with saying "I haven't heard The Dark Side of the Moon!" Savor what you're listening to right now. The other music isn't going anywhere, ya know.

Not heard much electronica, no (apart from a bit of Kraftwerk, stuff like that), but I think it's less to do with genre and more me being an old stick in the mud and just listening to old records. Almost feel a bit left out seeing you lot on here talking about Sigur Rós and other bands like that, that sound like they were named after a kind of Spanish lager, because it means nothing to me. I guess finding Oasis when I was still very young, and then listening to all the acts they claimed to be inspired by, going even further back, and hearing Noel's "in my day..." shtick all the time, has made me, much like a young Thom Yorke, "wish it was the Sixties" all the time, instead of being alert to what's going on in my time. And, of course, music's changed quite a lot since the dawn of the 2000s (where my wilful ignorance begins), so I've missed quite a bit actually, like the coming of rap (well into the mainstream, anyway) and the modern strands of art rock. 

RE the name 'Divine Comedy': in the 90s it was a sort of alter-ego for Neil Hannon; that of a pretentious Englishman from the 40s, tossing off literary references and winking at girls at parties (only to be ignored, of course, as all great alternative musicians invariably must). And so you had songs like 'The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count' and 'Songs of Love' (theme to Father Ted, but with words), where he pontificates on how every boy and girl seems to be running around everywhere in heat while songwriters are stuck alone writing about their subjects, all crooned in an exaggerated manner. By the time it got to this album, it was decided all that was getting a bit old hat, so he got Godrich in, and a lot of the "chamber pop" elements of his music (he's a massive Scott Walker fan) were replaced with darker tones, more fitting for a Radiohead record, and the wickedly funny lyrics became a bit more...solemn. The name Divine Comedy just stuck with him really. 

sooooo good

Underrated track from Tigermilk. Maybe the best B&S tune.

He's playing loads of gigs all across Britain and Europe, October-Feb '17, as well. You ever seen him live, guigsysEstring? Might try for Manchester next Feb...

Great news. Looking forward this new album and will try to catch a ticket for the gig in Marseille in November.