The Broken Down Comforter Collection

Not just the mundane but the downtrodden also. "For the Dishwasher" all about a..dishwasher, riding home after his day's work. He is told "it will be alright, just go to sleep tonight", again release through our dreams, the focal point.

Lyttle's lyrics move the listener all the way through. Immediately, following the above couplet, the consolation, "you'll get another chance some day" is offered, adding unbearable poignancy to proceedings.

It also offers an insight into the often child-like and utterly charming insights offered by the band's singer and songperson, Jason Lyttle.

For all the often sentimental value his lyrics hold throughout, the romantic side of things is painted as tragic on the final track and on 'For the Dishwasher' it is firmly rejected - "F**k that subject love". This is beautiful, encapsulating brilliantly the frustration and anger the rejected among us feel.

There are also lighter moments, the opening track, "Gentle Spike Resort", comments on angry teenage punk rockers. There is brilliant wordplay to be found here also. Rightly never favouring the direct approach, Lyttle points out their Whitesnake riffs dressed up like...not Sid Vicious, but Sid Viscosity.

Then there's 'Kim, you bore me to death', the homage to the Pixies. With an absolutely killer Pixiesesque guitar break, and a bizarre narrative concerning Frank Black's? first meeting with Kim. Where she "explains her theory" with her room mate behind her "playing bongos", expertly playing up Kim Deals' suspected kookiness.

Lyrical themes vary wildly elsewhere, with a general sense of sadness underpinning each song. A black heart definetly beats beneath all this. In particular, the hidden track, which concerns Lyttle killing a man "again and again" whom his girl cheated on him for. The fact that all this is set against a traditional rootsy chord progression works well, giving the piece a real confessional feel.

Dark but beautiful music, that manages to transport you to some place else, like all good music should.

Try and get hold of thier EP called 'Signal To Snow Ratio', it has the first installment of the Jeddy 3 'trilogy', one great should-a-been single 'Hand Crank Transmitter' and the essence of melancholia in 'Protected From The Rain' (a song about a kinda 'Lenny' figure who has poetry left on his windshield wrapped in plastic to guard against the bad weather by a mysterious presumably female figure). Top sad stuff.