Felt - Forever Breathes The Lonely Word

This is the sixth album, released on Creation in 1986.

Forever Breathes The Lonely Word was eight tracks running at a shade over half an hour. Contrasting the lack of vocals on [previous album] "Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads To Death", "Forever Breathes The Lonely Word" was Felt's first completely conventional song album. Concentrating more on the Hammond organ of Martin Duffy and the disparate range of Lawrence's lyrics, spanning black humour ("All The People I Like Are Those That Are Dead"), advice to young naïve music hopefuls ("Down But Not Yet Out") and soul-bearing honesty ("Hours of Darkness Have Changed My Mind"). Overlaid with an immaculate John Rivers production and the intricate guitar picking of Tony Wille, this album deserves the rare accolade of "Perfect."

This is certainly one of their best.

Duffy, who's out-of-focus face adorns the rather glorious cover, later went on to join Primal Scream, fact fans.

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Felt - Prinitive Painters 12"

Too late and too tired to write much, but this has been wrecking the iPod since Sunday. Never got tired of this one.

Now then, I'm going to bed with that new Orb/David Gilmour album. My expectations are quite low, so let's hope I'm pleasantly surprised.

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Felt - Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow 12"

Released in July 1984 on Cherry Red, for me, this is the start of Felt's ascension to greatness. Brilliantly produced by John A. Rivers, who wisely stacks up the female bvox behind Lawrence's weedy voice, this is a real indie stormer. Meanwhile, Maurice Deebank works his trademark spidery guitar magic to massive effect.

01. Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow
02. Fortune
03. Sunlight Strings

Sunlight Strings is almost better than the title track and makes me feel like I want to use it as a soundtrack for something. Fortune is a re-record of the "Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty" track.

There's an imperfection on the vinyl on this copy which you can hear on both sides, but hopefully it won't spoil your enjoyment of this truly great record.

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