Reviewed by Allen Lulu
Released: 1982 Weekend La Varieté Genre: Early Twee Rating: 4.25 out of 5 Highlights: The End Of The Affair Carnival Headache Drum Beat For Baby What have we here? Kicking off this post-Young Marble Giants venture is a gentle, French cafe piece that portends the Marine Girls and The Style Council. This is twee. You could put this on and tell someone it was a Belle & Sebastian album and they wouldn’t know the difference. I do not say this like it’s a bad thing. There is more energy on a lot of this (I.e. “Carnival Headache”) than on many albums of this type. But, perhaps had Tracey Thorne had a bigger band and these types of aspirations, this is what she would have put out. The instrumental “Life in the Day of pt 2” is the thing of summer days by the ocean and should be used in every montage of the Northern California Coast line. In any case, it belongs on your shelf if you like this kind of stuff. Lovely.
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