So I’ve been laid low with a virus recently. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice to say that just about all of my half term holiday was spent confined to bed and sofa. I’m struggling back into some semblance of life now, blinking meekly at the sunlight and valiantly throwing chocolate bars down my throat in a bid to replace the scary amounts of weight lost in the preceding seven days. It’s a tough strategy, but I think I can keep it up for a while.
Of enormous soothing power in the last few days have been the sounds of Copenhagen’s rather wonderful People Press Play, whose eponymous debut set has been spinning around the ether and laying down delirious threads of spidery electronic dreampop magic. I was led to them tangentially (as is always the best way) via Bobby Baby, whose work as It’s A Musical and Bobby & Blumm I was just catching up with (and incidentally, both the Music Makes Me Sick and Everybody Loves sets are wonderful and well worth picking up). Anyway, whilst at the MORR shop, I decided to take a chance on the Not Given Lightly set, wherein a bunch of people I was mostly not previously aware of tackle some of the finest Flying Nun pop of previous ages. Now I admit I approach cover versions with some degree of trepidation at the best of times, but the prospects of anyone taking on ‘Kaleidoscope World’ and not leaving me frowning in dissatisfaction were, frankly, not great. Chapeau then to People Press Play for taking The Chills’ soft garage psych guitar masterpiece and giving it a fresh air of spooked early summer salaciousness.
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