Stricken City Songs About People I Know (CD/DVD Deluxe Package)
Debut mini-album come story so far from the fabulous band who've just finished a massive tour supporting Maximo Park. With nods to Talking Heads songrwriting and Young Marble Giants minimal lushness, SC's lovely sunny sound is yummier than an ice cream on a summer's day, and this looks just as good as it sounds. A deluxe gatefold package, it folds out to include an eight track CD and an eight-film DVD with exclusive short films, remixes, live footage and all sorts of wonderful footage. There's also a treasure hunt element to this package, with each album having a hidden wording - the first to solve the mystery wins a completely unique, super-sized personalised artwork!
Limited to 1000 hand-made copies, a large chunk of which were already sold on the band's recent jaunt round Blighty.
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Want to know more? Here's what all the songs are about, as told by lead singer Rebekah Raa.
Gifted - This song was recorded as an acapella on a bus. It's about someone who brings out the worst qualities in people, and about having a bit of a moral dilemma. These kind of problems are often best resolved on the number 21.
Pull The House Down - The music came together really quickly for this song but the words were really difficult to get out. They became very personal and close to the heart, which can be weird to admit. It's an outstretched hand, an offer of help and understanding to someone who didn't realise their own potential and just kept messing things up.
Small Things - About productivity and motivation; trying to get to the end of the tunnel; my own frustration at my inability to get up in the morning; and a girl who wraps herself up in her work so much she can't see anything going on around her. She works so hard she looks ill, but I think this is the happiest she's ever been. I'm probably just jealous.
Killing Time - Spending some quality time inside your imagination is no crime, but is probably better spent with a best friend or the love of your life.
PS - Sometimes things are better left unsaid, and sometimes things are better said really loud on your first E.P. A little, "Oh and by the way...you're not as good as you think you are, and I don't like you either" to an old 'friend'.
Sometimes I Love You - When I wrote the words to this I'd just watched Pierrot le Fou. It's about running away with someone, companionship and silliness, and forgetting about everyone else in the world.
5 Metres Apart - This song has been through four bassists, three drummers and a few different keyboard parts, but it has always been about the same thing; when you overlook the funny little things you like about someone and start taking it more seriously. Thinking about the bigger picture and wondering how to make things bigger and better.
Terrible Things- A look back to childhood memories of getting banned from things like matches and scissors. This one is for someone who couldn't grow out of being naughty.
S8MM/003 - SHEPHERDS BUSH from Stricken City on Vimeo.
Audio = Lost Art (Tin Can Telephone Remix)