Lying in the Long Grass

Notwithstanding that many of these songs are narrated by sad people, they're just so durn nice to sing! Maybe I have an inner country singer struggling to get out. Or maybe it's the tunes, or the lyrics (in time for the 14th of Feb: I might not be all you want, but it's all you get, it's me.)

If you over think the whole thing (as I feel I must do in order to fill this space), you could criticize the crisp, precise production, but really, that would be unfair. Yes, the band sound like they know what they're doing, but isn't that what we want? We don't always want The Fall, often we just want to sing and feel good.

Of course, as I type this, Ms. lang closes the album with a song about beating children, so it's not all puppy dogs and posies.