Side 1 Track 10 3.39. From the sun to the rain. It's overcast, though Sunday morning not evening so no excuse for that strange ennui that sinks in with the realisation towards the end of the day that it's back to work again shortly. From a very American landscape and mindset with Earth Wind & Fire to one that could only ever be an English one. Seeped in our melancholy and resignation. From a band, Midlake, that sounded like a minor league Blur when they turned up, I think at the end of the Nineties. They cut some very good tracks on this record and it deserves to be up here if only for the lines, 'It's one of those washed up days. Let's face it there isn't much on. Except Songs of Praise.' You'd have to be English, or British at least, to get that reference. They take the basics of the Be My Baby drums for their purpose, shift it round slightly to make sure it wrings out suitably depressed. Job well done.
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