It Took Seconds

Five minutes and forty-eight seconds: For the first time I have missed a posting deadline, so I’ve uploaded this file to Freaky Trigger, not Tumblr. I hope it works!

This is “Love Songs On The Radio” by Mojave 3, the post-Slowdive band formed by Rachel Slowdive and, er, Someone Else Slowdive*. It was excitably described as “country” by those top country experts the British music press - which is to say it has lots of slide guitar on it. At the time - 1995 - I thought it was very beautiful, and I’m still fond of it. It appears here not because it does anything amazing with its running time but because I have been trying to work out what the new Beach House record reminds me of and this sleepyheaded prettiness is as close as I’ve managed to get.

*(Neil Halstead and Ian McCutcheon, apparently - thankyou nuggetsofthefuture! Who needs Wikipedia when you can ho for reblogs instead.)

What would your 5’48” record be?