Just taken delivery of
Mansun's final (re-union tours notwithstanding) album:
Kleptomania - a 3 CD collection comprising the unfinished tracks for their aborted 4
th album, fan-voted B-side and EP tracks and a collection of previously un-released tracks. Some fine tracks there, included the stuff meant for the album... pity they split up
The last track on the unfinished album has one of those "secret" tracks where there's five minutes or so of silence in the middle of the last, noticably ... except it's fifteen minutes of silence before the second track kicks in. This is very annoying when you've ripped the CD so you can play it through your
Karma and have to sit through the fifteen minutes of silence blasting out of the car stereo. This can lead to you hoping for a traffic jam so you have time to fast forward, which is a Very Bad Thing™
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I'll not lay claim to being the biggest fan of vocals (acapella singing: meh. Whitney Houston/Mariah Carey vocal histronics: meh. Rap: meh [apart from OutKast]) and I've happily listened to bands who's vocal abilities are patchy at best (Sonic Youth and New Order spring to mind), but, Christ on a crutch, this has to be
the most flat and tuneless vocal performance ever to hit the charts. It's almost painful to listen in places.
I'm going to go listen to some
Glenn Branca... loud.