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Aqualung

Friday, October 07, 2005

imageNow I’ve not much time to check out all the new bands the kids are listening to, any new music that I come across is pretty random.

But I’ve been congratulating myself on getting the album from English act Aqualung (that’s pretty much Matt Hales on his own). In the US, the available album, Strange and Beautiful, is a combination of his first two UK releases).

Atmospheric and crisp, with a bit of Jeff Buckely, Portishead and Coldplay thrown in, I’ve been working away to it for a week or two.

Imagine my surprise last night when the opening bars of the title track ‘Strange and Beautiful’ wafted across to me while watching CSI. The coroner was peeling back the skin from the skull of an exhumed woman at the time, and Aqualung was being used as mood music.

Now when I hear the song again, I’ll think of cadavers. Charming.

Posted by David in • Arts reviews

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