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Sep 30, 2023Liked by Annie Zaleski

And what’s more, their repudiation of Pop(timism) has coloured *everything* they’ve done since - I always hear a note of something stout and yeoman-like. “We’ll have no more of that Pavarotti/MacPhisto/trabant/giant lemon nonsense, thank very much”. Pop was the peak, everything since a dying fall

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Great response!

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Pop was as raw as they ever got. Everything they’ve done since feels like a return to safety.

Here’s a playlist of the songs that were revamped after the album was released: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAWO-2ZHmEexUKAN69AGwOM_PKMqGCN5x

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