Isn't it just like early January to throw up a great album that you didn't hear last year so you could include it in your end of December rundown. This particular record will probably not be the last of those for me by any means but it certainly is a wonderful thing to brush off any remaining cobwebs from the sad excuse for a year that 2020 was and cut a rug in your living room.
It's not a surprise really that this is a fine record. For this, First Date by Adele & the Chandeliers, comes from a band and more particularly from a woman with impeccable credentials. The Adele in question here is Adele Pickvance who played for several years in the late incarnation of The Go Betweens as well as several outings from both its frontmen, Robert Forster and Grant McLennan.
First Date is brimful of the wit, tension and sparkling poise that characterised The Go Betweens. Not that it sounds particularly like them really, though it certainly shares their DNA. It's an album that sounds like the hippest indie people having the coolest, rocking time imaginable.
As for Pickvance, her delivery is somewhere between that of Oh Mickey! Toni Basil, Courtney Barnett Cindy Wilson, Sleater Kinney and Louise Wener. She's a cool operator but one you'd imagine would make the most disarming and warmest company and you wouldn't need much of a nudge to actually fall in love with her over the course of an evening spent together.
First Date has plenty of tunes, plenty of charm and generally plenty going for it in every respect. An album that has garnered precious little attention of any kind but shucks, that's the world's loss. I'm delighted to have chanced upon it and one date is clearly not going to be enough, for me at least.
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