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ALBUM NOTES by The Olde Wee Plinth On his debut outing, Mr Haynes has submitted 10 beautiful songs, magically blended into a full-length album that is immediately wallowable. Turn off the lights. Find some headphones, give this record to your ever-hungry hifi and give it the attention you deserve. I’ll show you around. Originally an cheerful acoustic number, Wasted Mouth is expanded here to a four-to-the-floor disco stomper, but with a million backwards pianos floating around each other. Be sure to listen out for the backing vocals on the chorus, recorded during a full-on cold. After a sparkling outro, we are soon into Waiting Here, a beautiful, glittering sun-baked song of longing, as simultaneously 80s as it is contemporary. Electric pianos flicker and electric drums grind below real drums to lay down a sexy, laid-back groove. Enjoy the pleasure while it lasts though, as the solitary bass drum and distant pianos of Life Looking At Screens soon bring everything back down to earth. Here’s the writer, waking up to the TV, spending eight hours a day in an office, checking texts, checking emails, wondering when all the things that were supposed to enhance life ended up taking it over. You won’t find the answers here. But you will find Brazil, 1970 - a football highlights soundtrack if ever there was one. New Order style bass, a mysterious ambience and no chorus. Possibly the greatest five minutes of your life. So far. Over a period of about a year, Japanese men were findin
Wasted Mouth
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Waiting Here
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Life Looking At Screens
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Brazil 1970
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Please Be Happy
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White Shirt, Pencil Skirt
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Someday
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(I Like to Party)
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If All Else Fails Tonight
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(Please)
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TheCity That I Know
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Wake-Up Call
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