Marcia Blaine School For Girls - Pink Sticks

  by Maarten Schiethart

published: 30 / 5 / 2003

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Review

Form and method anyone? Forgive me for being harsh, but the modern media still employs methods developed by futurists and fascists in the 1920's. I hope to get this right, as I take this Static Caravan 7" single to be an excursion out of loungy electronics into modern cocktail jazz composition. The Marcia Blaine School for Girls is a fictional establishment.. It's a threesome from Glasgow, all men of course, then again probably not, since with musicians like TMBSFG, confusion very often is the objective. Marcia Blaine is the fictional headmaster with a liking for the no-hesitation theories by 1920's and 1930's  people who shouldn't have gotten into power. The single's A-side 'Pink Sticks' is melodrama rendered with a soft glitch approach. Noodling along gently for three pretty minutes, 'Pink Sticks' needs to be followed by the B-side 'We' for full effect. Through that sequence you'll notice a sense of communal belonging in 'We'. The track builds on the intertwining of keyboards with glitch samples and actually reaches great heights with an effortless balance.  

Track Listing:-

1 Pink Sticks
2 We

Label Links:-

http://www.staticcaravan.org/