Sweet Williams - Bliss
by Maarten Schiethart
published: 15 / 10 / 2011
Label:
Endless Love Records
Format: CD
intro
Overtly depressed and angst-ridden debut album from Brighton-based band Sweet Williams, the new group of Tom House who is Charlottefield's former frontman
'Bliss' brings acoustic music to a grinding halt as if it is a Bonnie Prince Billy record, without its tongue placed cornily and firmly in the cheek. It continues in this vein, only to confirm Brighton's exceptional heroin addiction and suicide rate. It is possibly just as disturbing to me as to when I first heard the music of Jandek, and obliterates a sense of nothingness. 'Bliss' turns out to be a whitewash of moroseness, but without any type of music reinstated in return. It is pure angst and weltschmerz here, but very little music. It is hard to imagine that a colourful coastal city can produce this level of depressive music.
Track Listing:-
1 Something Round2 Clare De Lune
3 Mum And Dad
4 A Million Years
5 So Right
6 Kansas
7 Three Feet
8 Blue Horse
9 Two Other People
10 Bliss
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