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Badlittlekitten · 02-01-2011, 06:46 AM

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Charlotte Hatherley - Summer
Grey Will Fade
2004
That bird who played guitar in Ash does a sun kissed scruffy pop curiosity. This hope-post-break-up song will be far to cheesy and saccharine for most, but I'm listening to it now, looking out the window at the rain pissing down. I've a feeling that if this was early June then this would sound like the greatest thing that's ever happened.
"Open the windows. Serotonin and the vitamins C D and E. Oh let it all sink in to your skin, close your eyes. And you can feel the release.", she sings gleefully, and I call my calender a lazy slob bastard for only being at February.
What brings me back to this song is its slight oddness, from the complex and quirky vocal melodies in the verses and Charlotte's impatience with the typical four-beats-a-bar structure, to the lyrics of the great chorus (with handclaps!):
I confused myself with somebody else
I didn’t know what to do, cos I was somebody new
Oh now I know that
I confused myself with somebody else
I didn’t know what to do, know what to do.
It's the sound of someone coming back from mental collapse, rediscovering their identity and hoping that the temperamental English summer will make things better so that she can "leave my room, my cocoon, find the door and walk out to the sun." The song almost ruins itself by going on over a minute longer than it should do (on the album version), but at least it leaves us on an emotional cliff hanger as your left unsure as to whether Hatherly's really recovered or not, with her final line, "Took my time to come around. Breathing in and breathing out, won’t you see what I can do.
When I leave my room"

02-01-2011, 06:46 AM	#27 (permalink)
Badlittlekitten And then there was music Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Near Wild Heaven Posts: 287	36 Charlotte Hatherley - Summer Grey Will Fade 2004 That bird who played guitar in Ash does a sun kissed scruffy pop curiosity. This hope-post-break-up song will be far to cheesy and saccharine for most, but I'm listening to it now, looking out the window at the rain pissing down. I've a feeling that if this was early June then this would sound like the greatest thing that's ever happened. "Open the windows. Serotonin and the vitamins C D and E. Oh let it all sink in to your skin, close your eyes. And you can feel the release.", she sings gleefully, and I call my calender a lazy slob bastard for only being at February. What brings me back to this song is its slight oddness, from the complex and quirky vocal melodies in the verses and Charlotte's impatience with the typical four-beats-a-bar structure, to the lyrics of the great chorus (with handclaps!): I confused myself with somebody else I didn’t know what to do, cos I was somebody new Oh now I know that I confused myself with somebody else I didn’t know what to do, know what to do. It's the sound of someone coming back from mental collapse, rediscovering their identity and hoping that the temperamental English summer will make things better so that she can "leave my room, my cocoon, find the door and walk out to the sun." The song almost ruins itself by going on over a minute longer than it should do (on the album version), but at least it leaves us on an emotional cliff hanger as your left unsure as to whether Hatherly's really recovered or not, with her final line, "Took my time to come around. Breathing in and breathing out, won’t you see what I can do. When I leave my room" __________________ 'Said do you feel it? Do you feel it when you TOUCH ME?. THERE'S A FIRE! THERE'S A FIRE!' The Stooges. Dirt. https://soundcloud.com/bad-little-kittens My Top 100 LPs My Top 52 Indie Tracks Of The 21st Century (incomplete) Last edited by Badlittlekitten; 02-01-2011 at 08:24 AM.