I had a look at their site and its page of record covers and I immediately wanted socks and curtains by whoever designed their stuff. I see these thing so differently since I well spent time with Fontman.

Music. I had only seen passing reference to the band British Sea Power in an a recent club listing in The New Yorker. They are new and I don't think just new as a 40 year old guy knows new but not so new that I am surprising Google. They played the Horseshow one night a few weeks ago on their only Canadian stop on their first short North American tour. I picked up their first CD, The Decline of British Sea Power (illus.) this lunch hour and I have played it about 3 times so far. It is an interesting amalgam of much familiar much 1980 in it - vocals like Bowie meets Jacob Dylan meets Springsteen. Noisy bits like the Pixies and Frippish guitars, the very hooky "Carrion" owed much to Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes" sound. And a 14 minute track, "Lately". Something of The Jam in "Remember Me" - that's maybe pushing it but only because I love the Jam. It's been a long time since I saw a 14 minute track among the threes and fours. BBC 6 says the band members lobby for the remanning of lighthouses.

God help us if the radiation leaks
God help us if nobody knows for weeks
But a little electricity won't hurt
No, a little electricity won't hurt

from "Childhood Memories"