British Sea Power – Krankenhaus
Krankenbollocks more like. Can you believe in the age of Google I actually can’t find anywhere to buy this bastard new EP. It’s not even available on Rough Trade Digital and they’re signed to bloody Rough Trade. I know the two enterprises have gone their separate ways, but sheesh! So if, given I don’t have iTunes, anyone thinks they can help me out then please do. The only place I found stocking the bloody thing had something up with their online purchasing, so couldn’t process the bloody transaction. Well, the CD will be available from the 20th November anyway, so I may just have to wait.
Their site says this:
The tracks Atom and Down On The Ground are from the forthcoming BSP album, Do You Like Rock Music? The other tracks – Straight Down The Line, Hearing Aid and The Pelican – are exclusive to the EP.
Anyway, Atom doesn’t sound much like recent British Sea Power. It sounds rather more like their debut album The Decline of British Sea Power, rather than the mellower follow-up Open Season. This is no bad thing though, as it suggests to me that there will be plenty of opportunity for the unhinged live mentalism for which they are rightly renowned. Down on the Ground, the only other track I have heard, is more of an Echo & the Bunnymen job of the sort one might expect from Open Season.
So no great departure seems to be on the cards, but I like this lot so I don’t care. I am going to see them play Edinburgh in early November (at Cabaret Voltaire), and am really looking forward to seeing them go ballistic and make our ears bleed again. Magic!
British Sea Power – Atom
British Sea Power – Down on the Ground
it drives me nuts as well when i can’t find a place to buy something, even if just for my “buy” link on a post. after a while i give up and figure i’ve spent enough time chasing it down.
in this particular case, you’ll probably be able to pick it up at their show, and then you can give them bloody hell for making it so difficult to find!
Krankenbollocks sounds painful…
It’s painfully irritating. Here I am trying to spend my money on a CD and I find myself unable to. The worst part is actually that sneaking suspicion that the real culprit is just my own stupidity.
Can’t help you with the buying of it, but having seen them before this EP came out I can assure you that the ‘unhinged live mentalism’ is in full effect. ‘Atom’ and I think ‘The Pelican’ were set-closers and it was the usual flying-helmet-wearing, crowd-surfing nonsense. Thanks for the link to Both Bars On, by the way.
No worries at all – and yes, I saw them at End of the Road so I have a vague idea what to expect. They’re playing a bloody small venue in Edinburgh though, so I get the impression it should be even more eyebrow-singeing than the big tent they played at EotR.
try bleep.com
All sorted now, thanks.