GRAMMATICS' creative pace is headlong and upwards. Up to a point this single release is the GRAMMATICS you already know, with songs that are episodic, dramatic and unpredictable. But now, it's more so. More unpredictable. More dramatic. The opening to "Double Negative" is chopped up like a late Radiohead piece. But then a spiralling melody sets off into somewhere beyond any structure while the guitar goes heavy and spiky. Then, with all sorts of lush and violent things happening, a sumptuous ten note guitar riff billows out across daring architectural savagery with Owen's vocal chasing that guitar line. It is calculatedly disorienting. A wonderful thing. Somehow it ends: stops dead with fright.
Compared to "Double Negative" the B side "Notes In His Pockets" is a straightforward narrative song about trouble with love. But the "bottom of the story" is too deep to fathom. Characters and places are teasingly real and almost identifiable. Justin? Sella Bar? Brudenell? I need a magnifying glass here, and a lyric sheet to pore over: "Those girls are all gossips"; "Guilt around his neck". There is plenty of guitar thunder and there are lashings of cello, but I still don't know what he's got in his pocketses.
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