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... and Santa turns out to be a depressed, staggering, whiskey-swigging Scot. Or so the official "festive" video for "We're All Going To Die" has it. The song leads off the ex-Arab Strap Malcolm Middleton's 2007 solo album A Brighter Beat. (The Santa in the video is not Middleton himself, but Kim Noble.) How fitting. I mean, If I'd had to venture out to shops and malls in the past couple of weeks, I'd be hitting the bottle as well. But I'm still sober enough to join in the bid to make "We're All Going To Die" the Christmas No. 1 in UK. Its odds have gone up from 1000/1 to just 12/1, making it #4 favorite.
A Brighter Beat is loaded with upbeat and catchy new wave indie ditties like this. But be warned: they come with some of the gloomiest lyrics that you'll be likely to encounter this year. Or any year, really. (How about the cycle of life captured by "Death Love Depression Love Death"?)
On Dec. 21st, the Scottish newspaper Daily Record made "We're All Going To Die" the Single Of The Week, writing: "There are homeless people, folk on their own and even the Africans, whose Christmas won't be happy. This song is for them." A worthy dedication. Now where's that bottle....
[Oh, what am I doing at the computer? Working.... You see, it's when the semester ends that academics have time to get some work done on their own research. It so happens that I have an absolutely firm Jan. 2nd article deadline hanging over my head. So I can pretty much guarantee you that I'll be needing A Brighter Beat in the next 10 days.]
A Brighter Beat is loaded with upbeat and catchy new wave indie ditties like this. But be warned: they come with some of the gloomiest lyrics that you'll be likely to encounter this year. Or any year, really. (How about the cycle of life captured by "Death Love Depression Love Death"?)
On Dec. 21st, the Scottish newspaper Daily Record made "We're All Going To Die" the Single Of The Week, writing: "There are homeless people, folk on their own and even the Africans, whose Christmas won't be happy. This song is for them." A worthy dedication. Now where's that bottle....
[Oh, what am I doing at the computer? Working.... You see, it's when the semester ends that academics have time to get some work done on their own research. It so happens that I have an absolutely firm Jan. 2nd article deadline hanging over my head. So I can pretty much guarantee you that I'll be needing A Brighter Beat in the next 10 days.]
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