With the Long Blondes debut, we finally see something approaching the whole package. The Libertines were the other extreme, a fantastic Arcadian mythology, literary and passionate at their core, but with only quite good songs to back it up. Gorgeous, cerebral, majestic tunes with an eerie blankness at their centre, coldness as a result. In the past few years two bands have groped at the mantle of immortality, but have fallen down on one of these two vital elements.įranz Ferdinand had and have terrific songs, but not the image. The excitement this elicits is just as vital as any middle eights. Image is the attitude, the stance, the philosophy, the essence. Image is not just looks and clothes, though it is that too. “Heresy!” comes the purist cry, “it should be all about the songs, craftsmanship, the flick of horny white finger on plectrum, never in all my born” etc. Of equal, not secondary importance however, is image. The first, surprise surprise, is fantastic songs. To be one of the immortals, one of the greats, a band needs two things. See all albums by The Long Blondes at .uk | Someone To Drive You Home – The Long Blondes “…with this far less feted CD, the Long Blondes definitely made the best album of that year, on every level…”
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