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Track Listings
| 1. Good Dancers |
| 2. Vampire Racecourse |
| 3. Rain Falls For Wind |
| 4. This Day |
| 5. Acid In My Heart |
| 6. Fill Me With Apples |
| 7. Tell The Girls I'm Not Hangin' Out |
| 8. Come To This |
| 9. Miniskirt |
| 10. Morning Bird |
| 11. Don't You Know |
| 12. Old Dirt Farmer |
| 13. Mourning Rain |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Lovers, the debut album from Perth's the Sleepy Jackson, is another fine example of a bright modern pop album that steals liberally from the past, yet presents its thefts with such skill and charm that ultimately, it feels churlish to cry foul. Besides, frontman Luke Steel clearly boasts such a broad musical knowledge that just as you've sussed out the particular ghost he's channelling, he's cast it out and hopped to the next willing spirit. The spectre of George Harrison stalks the swooning, string-laden "Good Dancers", but it's not until right at the end that the debt becomes explicit in a swirl of backward sitars. The sleepy "Acid in My Heart" is Gram Parsons with a poisonous case of indigestion, Steel musing over the vulture-picked bones of a long-dead love affair as pedal-steel notes curl in the heat of the midday sun. And "Vampire Racecourse" borrows the thudding repetition as perfected by The Velvet Underground's "Waiting for the Man", but fuses it to the glammy, sew-on sequins strut of David Bowie's "Suffragette City". So, does Lovers display an impressive talent? Unquestionably, but sometimes you're left wondering if the Sleepy Jackson have a voice of their own. Still, they're breezily successful at breathing new life into tired old chords, and that's a fine place to start. --Louis Pattison
CD Description
Debut full length album for the Perth-formed act whose sound takes in psychedelia, country and folk music. Fronted by Luke Steele, their music has been compared to that of The Beatles, Neil Young and The Flying Burrito Brothers. The single, 'Vampire Racecourse', is included.
Lovers, the debut album from Perth's the Sleepy Jackson, is another fine example of a bright modern pop album that steals liberally from the past, yet presents its thefts with such skill and charm that ultimately, it feels churlish to cry foul. Besides, frontman Luke Steel clearly boasts such a broad musical knowledge that just as you've sussed out the particular ghost he's channelling, he's cast it out and hopped to the next willing spirit. The spectre of George Harrison stalks the swooning, string-laden "Good Dancers", but it's not until right at the end that the debt becomes explicit in a swirl of backward sitars. The sleepy "Acid in My Heart" is Gram Parsons with a poisonous case of indigestion, Steel musing over the vulture-picked bones of a long-dead love affair as pedal-steel notes curl in the heat of the midday sun. And "Vampire Racecourse" borrows the thudding repetition as perfected by The Velvet Underground's "Waiting for the Man", but fuses it to the glammy, sew-on sequins strut of David Bowie's "Suffragette City". So, does Lovers display an impressive talent? Unquestionably, but sometimes you're left wondering if the Sleepy Jackson have a voice of their own. Still, they're breezily successful at breathing new life into tired old chords, and that's a fine place to start. --Louis Pattison
CD Description
Debut full length album for the Perth-formed act whose sound takes in psychedelia, country and folk music. Fronted by Luke Steele, their music has been compared to that of The Beatles, Neil Young and The Flying Burrito Brothers. The single, 'Vampire Racecourse', is included.
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