The Rifles – The Great Escape

planning a „music that makes me happy“ tape is completely depending on the weather. and with a weather like now it becomes quite difficult. there are a million „the sun is shining and i feel great“ songs. and there's „singing in the rain“. but for foggy, drizzling grey all day?
i am thinking of the scene in the movie „billy elliot“ when young billy starts dancing in the streets of his hometown to THE JAM playing „A Town Called Malice“. THE RIFLES' „The Great Escape“ puts that picture in my head and makes me want to do the same. (ha! I bet you wouldn't have expected that for a comparison of THE RIFLES with THE JAM, would you.) lucky me i'm not that passionate about dancing. since i'm thrice as old i would look pretty silly.
the song is is definitely a tune to whistle along and cheer you up. but english enough to make you feel cold and sodden. and it turns whatever your place called home is in a coastal town that they forgot to close down. seriously, i couldn't be further away from any sea but i can taste the salt in the air and smell the... you know what sea smells like today. I guess adump just smells the same everywhere.
unfortunately the album got postponed. so i have to wait some more days to getter a better idea whether or not the second album is as good as the first one. but since basicly all sophomore albums of last years debuting bands were rubbish, releasing it next year isn't that much a bad idea. maybe that's why they decide to postpone the record.
let's face it. the PIGEON DETECTIVES“ „Emergency“ was disappointing and for „Couples“ by THE LONG BLONDES i only need four letters to give you a full review. B-O-R-E. so i hope „The Great Album“ coming out early next year now will break that spell. that and the weather to still be shitty then.




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