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Alison
Elvis Costello
Tim Lott
Nick Lowe produced this one and it sounds it. Reminds me strongly of mid period Brinsley ballad which can't be bad. Too tasteful to be a hit, but label notes are typically whimsical, crediting Keepitasahobby productions, and defining sides A and B as, respectively, Forty Year Old Stereo and Would Have Been Stereo. Intriguing matrix text, too — Elvis Joins The FBI. Really?
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Bowi
Nick Lowe
Tim Lott
EP of the Week
More gems of wisdom from the pen of the thinking man's broomstick. Nick Lowe has this uncanny flair for writing perfect pop songs ("Pure Pop For Now People" as the cover announces) and this EP proves again that he could or at least should be a superstar by the year 2000. Lowe combines explosively simple studio techniques, a genuine feel for atmosphere and an off the wall sense of humour.
The four songs on Bowi (a play on Low, geddit?) comprise of two "dead" songs which are apparently about ways of shuffling of this mortal coil ("Marie Provost" and "Endless Sleep") and two "live" songs; the lament for the plight of woman, "Born A Woman" and the instrumental "Shake That Rat." Every one's a masterpiece but "Endless Sleep" is the killer (hoho), sparse and funereal and doom laden and a death ballad tour de force.
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