Blog: Song, by Toad

After so loving Aidan Moffat's superlative, jarring I Can Hear Your Heart , I was looking forward to this, but with a little trepidation. It couldn't be as good, could it? And no, it couldn't, unfortunately. The problem really is the music. The lyrics are as sharp and impactful as ever, although not quite so manically focussed on betrayal and misery this time around. This is something of a mercy actually, as that did become a little bleak after a while. Here the subject matter is almost inevitably a little more diverse, which is good, with songs [...]

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