An album I've been playing on and off for a while now and have been particularly charmed by on repeated spins over the last couple of days. Tough Age, a gawky and decidedly awkward trio from Vancouver who released an album a couple of months back called Waiting Here.
The album focuses on recurrent themes of wanting to be yourself and not allowing mom and dad and the outer world dictating on how you choose to live your life. Musically their songs fall back on the pathways laid by The Cure and Joy Division way back when. Focusing primarily on both bands essentially Pop instinct rather than their underlying terror.
Flying Nun is the other fundamental ingredient at play here. That extraordinary set of bands who themselves found inspiration in the records The Cure, Joy Division and The Fall were putting out on the other side of the world. Waiting Here is a wonderful exploration of the pleasures and pitfalls of those teenage years.
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