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...album is this more apparent than on the track “Ringway to Seatac,” where a guitar intro reaches back for the lo-fi grindy sound of the pre-Albini Wedding Present albums of the ’80s. Like the songs of that era, Gedge??s voice doesn’t dominate, and is sometimes barely intelligible underneath the crunching guitars. It’s a vintage Wedding Present move, and this song, with lyrics emerging about “being five hundred miles away” and “still desperately...
Other songs are vintage Cinerama—two tracks top six minutes, and Gedge??s voice is adapted to a slick sheen, with trademark frank lyrics, accompanied by soothing, Enya-like vocals. In these songs, “Interstate 5 (Extended Version)” in particular, the guitars are drawn out to dramatic effect, churning and emotionally pulling, evoking images of intent searching on a dark highway, in the sort of film-music vein so inspirational to Cinerama...
Songwriter David Gedge??s obsession is something more complex: He is upset because he has heard her refer to their long-term relationship as a dalliance. Does anyone else sense a missing episode from Hornby’s novel...
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