Spector - Here Come The Early Nights

Außen pfui, innen hui.

Auf ihrem vierten Album bieten Spector von sanfter Piano-Ballade mit dezenten Sreichern und weiblichem Hintergrundgesang („Here Come The Early Nights“) über Alternative Rock mit Laut-Leise-Dynamik, der nach Radioheads Anfangstagen klingt („Not Another Weekend“), und Synthpop in New Order Marnier („All Of The World Is Changing“) bis Britpop, der an Embrace erinnert („Never Have Before“, „Room With A Different View“) oder mit Ohrwurm-Garantie ausgestattet ist („The Notion“), so einiges.

Auch bei den Schallplatten-Variationen zeigt sich das Quartett aus London für „Here Come The Early Nights“ vielfältig: black Vinyl, cloudy blue Vinyl, blue ice Vinyl, Halloween Splatter Vinyl und die bei Blood Records auf 750 Exemplare limitierte ‘Freds Or Tails’ Picture Disc.

 

The record starts with two of the three previously released tracks from the album, ‘The Notion’ which sets the tone for the following 10 tracks with a chugging melody and frontman Fred McPherson’s clever wordplay to the fore. The almost topically titled ‘Driving Home For Halloween’ is more instant, with McPherson spitting out rhymes as the youth would put it, almost rapping his way through it, over a thumping drum beat. (…)

Following this duo of singles, the record remains on a reflective bent as the bluesy Gene-like ‘Never Have Before’ and the distorted vocally ‘Not Another Weekend’, which as as loud as they get, with some excellent references to the mundanities of living (‘Shaun Williamson’s Mustang Sally’ a particular favourite) before concluding “we could see our lives flash right before our eyes and we wouldn’t even notice.” (…)

The penultimate two tracks ‘Room With A Different View’, and especially the title track, show a sadness and a lyrical light touch (‘Here comes the early nights/Feels the end is in sight’) point to where Spector could end up on future albums, almost a torch band, and it feels like these two should be the closing numbers.

Instead, they throw in a curveball by ending on the (relatively) upbeat ‘All Of The World Is Changing’, which pulls of the magic trick of sounding like both the sound of now and like it could have fitted in on any of the previous three records, so a fitting conclusion for a record showing a band at the top of their hypnotic powers.

(God Is In The TV)