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The La's to return in 2012?
Posted by Chimney Singing... on 27 November 2011 - 9:53am.
The La's foum is all ablaze on the back of an interview someone has recently conducted with Lee where he talked about getting the second La's album out in 2012 on vinyl only. It will be called Callin' All #2 and will feature a load of the Kitchen Tape/ Crescent songs like Robberman, Was It Something I Said, Rebound, Human Race etc.
The guy who's posted it seems very genuine and credible.... Trying not to get my hopes up but this could be incredible if it happens.
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Given his odd tuning predelictions,
are we to expect that the new album will only play correctly at 31⅓ r.p.m.?
Apparently so
He's got into some idea of pre war tunings. It seems that since then everyone has played in concert pitch, so you have to go back to get the old sound (presumably even better than sixties dust). He's been using some iPhone app that you allows you to tune to hertz levels so that they all add up to nine. It's something to do with finobacci sequence (don't ask me), but the sound apparently makes patterns in the water.
Hmmm. Always thought he was a hippy.
It's airy-fairy, dippy-trippy, holistic, Gaia-friendly, homeopathic, pseudo-scientific cosmic tuning bollocks, not to put too fine a point on it.
But if it helps him write some good songs, what the hell?
"It's airy-fairy,
"It's airy-fairy, dippy-trippy, holistic, Gaia-friendly, homeopathic, pseudo-scientific cosmic tuning bollocks, not to put too fine a point on it"
Yes, but I like that - it contributes to the greater mythology around the band. For me there is something that keeps me going back to those songs beyond the tunes themselves. I find those songs impossible to get sick of in a way that just doesn't happen with many other bands. There's definitely something deeper going on there.
Some of the versions on the songs just have this reverberating warm hum that seems to create independent harmonies on a whole different level and which feels elemental.
Mind you, I'm not that musical, so it probably is nonsense. I like the idea of the La's being connected to some sort of higher source, basically. Like in Brideshead Revisted when Charles Ryder is speaking to Sebastian about Catholicism. "You can't believe in something simply because it's a lovely idea" "Why not? I can". Or words to that effect.
"reverberating warm hum"
Someone needs to tell Mavers to get the earth looked at on his amp.
Ha
Maybe...probably a musically incorrect phrase but to me it's what's lacking from the likes of David Gilmour and other technically gifted but sterile players. All of the instruments and voices melt into each other in the La's.
M*jo magazine...
... this month has a short piece on Lee as a preamble to a longer full interview in a forthcoming Smiths/Stone Roses/"Indie" special, and yes, he does seem quite sincere about getting something new out, though he's apparently still waiting to find "the right drummer", so no-one should be holding their breath here...