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) The National Missing PersonThe PlaywrightsSink & Stove Records Released: 8th September 2003 Catalogue Number: SASR#11
The second, sadder single from 'GBTR'. Backed with live favourite 'Trellick Tower'. “A quick return for this lot given that they featured in the last missive, and what a return with one of the best cuts from their recent long playing debut ‘Good beneath the radar’. Sweet, moving and tender. Sorry if that sounds a tad bit lame and maybe derogatory, but that I’m afraid sums up this track. It’s one of those rarified treats when you are simply left reaching for words. Too dour to be considered elegiac, yet too intrinsically enchanting to be considered melancholic, The Playwrights deal a schizophrenic card in that they admirably merge the opposing emotions of happy and sad side by side in doing so recalling the essence of the classic Smiths track ‘Heaven knows I’m miserable now’, glockenspiels, melodicas and guitars dreamily courts with one another while Aaron Dewey’s vocals drift conscience pricking overhead. ‘Lies of the suburbs’ on the flip is again taken from the album, harmonicas and jagged angular chords all within the same 3 minute time line, can things really get any better, imagine Wire crossed with the Nightingales. Neat or what? New boy ‘Trellick Tower’ is a frisky multi faceted cutey, wintry cornets howl amid the blaze of Marr-ish lost in the groove guitars while faintly wisping Francophile touches edge for centre stage from the rear. Bringing up the rear is the ‘Knowledge of Bugs’ remix of the title track, injecting a whole new face lift, re-fit, dash of paint and throwing several kitchen sinks into the bargain and ending up sounding nothing like the original but rather like Plone in a bell hurling fight with Broadcast amid a sandstorm. Essential obviously.” - Losing Today The National Missing Person Lies Of The Suburbs Trellick Tower The National Missing Person (Knowledge of Bugs Remix) |
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