Seagull Strange
Love’s Sick Disease
Finally, a band with a piano that doesn’t try to bore you into the grave with sentimental horse-shit.
Yes, there’s life in Seagull Strange and they aren’t ashamed to change pace, add some bounce or just generally throw in some chops when other bands would make us suffer the high-power-beam-lit piano scenes of Coldplay and their contemporaries.
‘Love’s Sick Disease’ does open with a pretence of epic-aspirations but then moves on swiftly by kicking out a decent beat, edgy lyrics and enough dynamics to grow the grey-matter rather than diminish it.
Things are more eclectic in ‘Sulla’s Return’ with a dark, almost sinister sound that includes some eighties keyboards. It’s lyrically uncomfortable, combining the feeding of our enemy’s cremated remains to our livestock (which in turn will be eaten by us) but with a chorus reassuring us that everything will be alright. Time to call a psychiatrist, or the police, or the RSPCA!
In all seriousness, though, it’s a good song and so is ‘Little Son’, which fuses a very Beatlesy track with jet-plane guitars.
It’s a great single, not least because it would easily sit on a radio playlist, despite some unhinged lyricism.
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