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...transport. Here in Calcutta, I have heard from many of my friends in Bombay about the “indomitable spirit” of their city, a phrase that has been used extensively by the television news channels reporting from Bombay. There were reports of people serving tea, bread, and daal to survivors and friends at train stations, free rides home were offered and gratefully accepted, beds for lost travelers and survivors were provided by slum-dwellers, and people rushed to hospitals to donate blood, as blood types became more important than caste or religion in India?...
It’s one of the slickest voices in pop, sliding like honey into each oh-so-deliberately placed consonant. But on Scritti Politti’s first album in seven years, Gartside’s voice is also used to great effect; “White Bread, Black Beer” may be the best record...
With “White Bread, Black Beer,” Gartside has moved from deconstructing the love song to working out how love can tear itself apart—among many, many other things. If this shift makes his thoughts a little muddier (as he puts it, “Tying everything together / so I can’t think it anymore”), it also makes them much richer...
Gartside is not the type to occupy the later years of his career with vain attempts to recreate an instinctive original greatness, as many musicians do; his is the type of music that gets better as he learns things. “White Bread, Black Beer,” masterfully wraps up humor, sex, unease, and stutter-starts of musical brilliance to produce a veiled, intellectual self-portrait of one of pop’s most fascinating thinkers...
...already seeing the beginning of shortages. Bread is hard to find, for example. And the scratch cards to recharge our mobile phone accounts - already outrageously expensive in peacetime - have jumped in price from about $40 to $50 for 80 minutes of talk-time. Soon, even that connection to the outside world will vanish...