This one comes up by mistake, really. A little while back, I re-organised EPs and b-sides into more obvious chunks so that they’d be easier to listen to. Had I not missed this, it would be filed away under ‘Way Beyond Blue’ additional tracks – where I would almost certainly never listen to it ever again. But I didn’t, so here we are.
I picked this up in Wales at around the point that Catatonia were becoming famous. This was an early release – their second, I think. Nothing on this EP re-appeared later down the track, though in fairness, it’s not that bad. The first two tracks are pleasant-enough jangling indie, very much in keeping with the rest of their early work – the band went on to become much more ‘anthemic’, and there are precious few signs of that here. The final track, ‘Difrycheulyd (Snail Ambition)’ is sung in Welsh with spoken French interjections – charming in its own way, but precisely the kind of self indulgent nonsense the band were to ditch once they decided that selling some records might be quite a nice idea.
It’s not a great record by any stretch, but it’s a debut EP, so you can’t be too harsh. You know – for what it is, it’s fine.
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