LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
#266/900
July 15 1985
The Verlaines
Hallelujah All the Way Home
Genre: Alternative
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
It Was Raining
All Laid On
The Lady and the Lizard
Lying in State
We’ve had a few musicians who seem more like they should be professors than rock stars. Ed Kuepper, for instance. Peter Blegvad. Others.
Graeme Downs of The Verlaines is an actual academic. He’s a teacher at the University of Otago, where he is head of the Department of Music. And everything here just sounds so fucking smart.
And it anticipates sounds that would come many years later from bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and Irving. This is 00s Indie made manifest 20 years before. It’s post-punk and the bridge between those two worlds. Challenging and exciting.
I’m shocked at how much like “Lying in State” Titus Andronicus’ The Monitor sounds. Staggering.
This album could be released today and it would sound contemporary.
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