Friday, 19 February 2010

sulk: crazed hysteria


Friday nights are often punctuated by new discoveries on spotify; this week is an album by The Associates that spills 1982 into the air with unerring accuracy - just check out the album cover for starters.

I remember the singles - Party Fears Two in particular - they were odd, club-based songs and not my natural milieu. But something always made me want to listen to Sulk; I think something about them intrigued me.

Well, now I can and it's perplexing, rewarding, unsettling and more. Fascinating. One review said, "Extravagant yet haunted by doubt." Precisely.