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Review Summary: ........ So apparently this band is also called The Drink, or so does their Spotify page suggest. But heck knows. With their passion for utter old-school minimalism and slightly subdued Stephen Merritt-ian vocals, this is what I’ve been waiting for in the post-punk revival era. It’s a minimal-wave record, lads and gens. It’s an homage to the subtlest and most inconsequential of post-punk/new wave subgenres out there. That’s really it. It is minimal-wave. You can hardly say much of anything above just that. ******** (man, this feels weird to write) do the sound a great deal of justice, conducting the simplest of melodies with the most banal instrumental arrangement, but achieving the heaviest of effects. They twist and turn the conventional idea of tune and progression, meanwhile often still managing to come off as typically snarky, as a proper post-punk (or its derivative in this instance) record should. But the most surprising feature of this album is just how the executional vagueness transcended into often times utter beauty, with songs like the Christmas carol mocking “Kinderpunsch”; “Practical Song (aka The Logical Song)", which even has a certain romantic edge to it; to “Comedian”, which is the darkest and most self-deprecating cut on here. It is a throwback like no other, going into the most obscure of underground tendencies of the 80s, but in 2018. Thank you for making me feel like back in those days again.
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Minimalistic review for a minimalistic album.
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Added to my list of dumb band names and also my playlist. Thank god for spotify
| | | * “Practical Song (aka The Logical Song) - Needs a closing " there somehow.
* ...which even has a certain romantic edge to it; to, say, “Comedian”, - I feel it breaks the flow because of the amount of punctuation stuffed in there.
Just my 2 cents, the rest is great, pos!
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Ah, so this was originally released on youtube and Weird World/Domino is doing a re-release of it. On track three and this is really great
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Thanks, lads.
| | | How do you pronounce the band name?
| | | https://youtu.be/WNSf-KQORRk?t=21s
| | | 8 asterisks
| | | Ugh, how dumb
| | | if you youtube The Drink Practical Song, the first thing that comes up is the put the lime in the coconut song.
| | | Maybe their actual name has been censored this entire time, and it's something like Cuntfuck
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| | | "Maybe their actual name has been censored this entire time, and it's something like Cuntfuck"
Mind blown
| | | somewhere, Anal Cunt are really pissed
| | | Wait, Anal Cunt is also 8 characters...
| | | OH MY GOD! It's them. They read a book and are 0.1% smarter...
| | | Asterisk and obelisk the tormentor
| | | I'd imagine the comics would be quite different if that was the case lol
| | | It would be as hilarious as fuck
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