https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHdBf-8PZE Been listening to this song on repeat the last few days. I'm changing some things in my life and whenever I do that I tend to fixate on some song as a sort of through-line. Anyway this is a great track and I like how it has that same characteristic that Burial does of really sounding distinctively British. It's also a pretty damn accurate rendering of the experience of being completely pissed. I think this is a commonly mischaracterised part of the human experience, despite the fact that many of us do it every weekend. Probably because people who don't drink don't understand it, and those who do are liable to romanticise.
Addendum to the former... I got into Underworld recently via a rewatching of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. They soundtracked large parts of the ceremony, including the foremost part, a theatrical portrayal of the history of the British Isles from agrarianism into modernity. It's the first thirty odd minutes of this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4As0e4de-rI I thought it was fantastic and did a great job of evincing the materialist forces that drove industrialisation, and the heroic yet abject contribution of the working classes, while still honouring the foresight and genius of the great engineers of the industrial age. All this while interweaving so many distinctive and vital aspects of British life and culture - from rugby anthems and village cricket to labour marchers and emigrants from the colonies. It seems to offer a prototype for popular and proletariat British patriotism that we may have missed our chance to seize upon. If we are to find our way back to a patriotism of this sort we will first need to undo (is this what Deleuze meant by deterritorialise?) a decade of racial grievance politics. Only after that can we think about reclaiming an idea of Britain that is something other than the reactionary and racialist nationalism of the right, or the cringing apologia of the left. It doesn't seem likely...
Really cool song - does any one have more song recs with a similar feel (melancholic/nostalgic undertone while being relatively fast-paced). This song evokes a feeling I can’t quite explain and haven’t found any other song that “feels” the same. The “closest” vibe I can think of (but completely different genre) would be either Everlong or Mr Brightside.