Posted by tom on 3/28/2006, 4:23 pm Tom Hingley's old band's old songs on Tom Hingley's new label When a band might be described as 'lost', there is usually a reason why they are lost, and it is usually the reason that they are rubbish. You know, the old rubbishness chestnut. But this is not true of Too Much Texas, where Tom 'Inspiral Carpets bloke' Hingley cut his vocal teeth in the late eighties. Equal parts C86 jangle and agit-pop spikes and angles, they gain added oomph from Hingley's robust vocals and guitars that veer closer to Pixies than they do to Pastels. The likes of the galloping, barrelling Anchor, the fantastically-titled-and-vaguely-funky You Blister My Paint, the loopy white disco of the even-better-titled Patrick Mower and the incredible Fixed Link, which is practically abstract rap (Inspiral Rap Sect, anagram fans?) sound plenty timely now, which maybe explains why they were lost back then. Fascinating AND good to dance to - who'dathunkit?
86.133.90.241
TOO MUCH TEXAS
JUVENILIA
NEW MEMORABILIA
Rating: 8
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