Song(s) of the Day # 3,687 Newmoon

 

In the Book Club I attend we had an interesting discussion last month. The book selected was a long novel by a well known and celebrated Edwardian novelist who has gone out of favour in recent years. It was a well written book but my main criticism was that nothing of any import at all seemed to actially happen in it.. A conversation then ensued whether that was necessary in a novel to make it worth reading.

I had similar thoughts about reocrds this morning listening to Newmoon's latest album Temporary Light. It has a picture if clouds in the sky on the front cover. They look rather like the ones that Turner used to paint. The record itself is spectacularly uneventually. Glacial guitars and wan, absent vocals, all rather reminiscent of spendinga n afternoon in your back garden in a deck chair, watching the paint on the garden shed you've just painted dry.

Temporary Light is a well assemble piece of music. It's pretty in the way that Eyeless In Gaza ir Durutti Column records are pretty. Unfortunately it's not remotely as arreasting as either of those things can be. I won't be listening to it again.