I WAS having my breakfast when this dropped through my letterbox. Rather than stick it on straight away and risk annoying my neighbours (again), I decided to read the lyrics first and found them fascinating. So fascinating in fact, that I twice read them all the way through (like a novel) and by the time Richard and Judy came on I just had to turn the tv off and play the album.
Now for some strange reason, this album reminds me of Love's 'Forever Changes' album. Don't know exactly why, it certainly doesn't sound like it. Maybe its just the feel. At first hearing I wasn't sure the actual music did justice to the words, but a couple of plays later I realised I was wrong...this is a well crafted album indeed, with some really good moments.
I'm not sure the Llama Farmers (dreadful name!) have that big a fan base to save this from obscurity, but its an album that deseves to be heard, if only for the sake of the lyrics which are a cut above your average 'indie' offering.
Who knows? Maybe in ten years time it will be held in the same reverence as the Love album?
Certainly worth investigating and certainly more entertaining than Richard and Judy.
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