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Decoration make cinematic Pop where the movies playing are all grainy black and white Shelagh Delaney screenplays and where Julie Christie is catching the midnight train to London alone. It’s nothing new, and I for one have been here a host of times before, but so what? Isn’t that part of the whole magic of Pop? That sounds can capture moments of the present and the past in one magically conjured breath of reference that crashes across the boundaries of our personal histories, leaving us scarred for a second and reverberating with fall out for a week, a year, a lifetime…
Alistair Fitchett.
Rambling casually onto the airwaves in 2004 Decoration instantly oozed
unflappable northerness. They fell headlong onto the world with a
shambling tabloid ordinariness; kitchen sink dramas and dilemmas, romantic
clumsiness and affable tenderness were their heritage and they soon became
their calling card. They kick their fray into action with a heady blend of
tuneful potency, a melodious growl and a searing, scintillating wail,
pulling together the last twenty years or so of Peel endorsed independent
popular music Decoration instil in you a need for more. Guitars were made
for songs like these, distortion pedals just add to the effect.
Following their own John Peel endorsements and radio sessions galore the band released Don't Disappoint Me Now their debut album in October 2005, this was succeeded by a handful of singles, and a second album flippant. This year will see Don't Disappoint Me Now re-packaged with new artwork and new tracks pulled from a Dandelion Radio session and early demos. The limited run will be hand numbered and released in the United States through Entangled Records of Portland, Oregon
Over the winter of 2007/8 the band retreated into their favoured recording
studio, Gravity Shack in London and started work on their second full length
album. See You After the War was completed in the spring and is due for
release in October.
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