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Jan 21, 2006

The Gits Music Awards: 9 – The Better And Better award

(for the artist you already liked but who just got better)

Not sure if this strictly counts, but I fell in love again last year with an artist I’d almost entirely forgotten about. I used to like the Trash Can Sinatras, but their output had waned of late, and so it was with great happiness that I stumbled across Weightlifting from their album of the same name, which hit all sorts of buttons.

it’s been a lonely winter hibernating away / you need a little sunlight on that face / how long can you stay in the darkness? / dust round the empty nest? / you could make your way out / if you lay down the load…

Sweet, calming and hypnotic, just reassuring enough to strike a chord in my current circumstances, and different enough from their previous oeuvre to keep me interested. So perhaps not “better and better”, but certainly “still good shocker” or “better new output than most bands after twenty years”

You will find a great weight lifting / easing your mind, a great weight lifting / leave it behind, a great weight lifting…

Also highly ranked in this category: Morrissey if only for the infernally-catchy First of the Gang.

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