For some
reason, I completely missed out on this band originally; I’m not sure whether
WHFS didn’t play their stuff, or whether it just went right
past me. Regardless, I didn’t become aware of them until I bought Nick Hornby’s
excellent essay collection Songbook,
which devotes one chapter to this song and another to the also-worthwhile “Your
Love Is The Place Where I Come From,” both of which are from their classic
album Songs From Northern Britain.
(Full disclosure: I couldn’t pass up the book after seeing that Chapter 2
featured “Thunder Road”.)
I couldn’t
possibly improve on Hornby’s description: “a three-minute blast of Byrdsian
pop, packed with sunshine and hooks and harmonies and goodwill.” In other
words, although the book came out over 13 years ago and the album is from 1997,
it’s a perfect ray of hope for the times we currently live in. (For more, pick
up the band’s fantastic album Here from
last year.)
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