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The Research – Breaking Up (At Large)
Breaking up is never easy, you know the empty feeling, the rejection, the way you constantly rerun events in your head, wondering if you’d done things a little differently maybe things would still be ok. Confused, you know its for the best, she bored you anyway yet how you miss her and the way you check your phone three times a minute in the hope that maybe she’s text you or called you and somehow you’ve missed it. At the same time remembering how it used to bug you how she would never leave you alone, always phoning when the last thing you felt like was talking, just content to watch TV in silence or listen to all them songs she hates, you know the ones I’m talking about, Venetian Snares, The Books, Kid 606, need I go on? Yet as you sit there and listen to them now you know you would sacrifice them all just to hear her voice. Its times like these that you need the Research, each song a little golden nugget, soothing three part harmonies and lyrics that capture the moment in a nutshell (“I never see you anymore, you’re never then when I call and you’re asking me why we’re breaking up” “I want you to know I tried, all summer long to hide, from people I knew who would ask me why you weren’t by my side, I never knew what to say, I pointed out to sea, I circled to shells in the sand and dug a trench between” “we’ve got problems, we just don’t talk about them…I don’t ever want to lose you”) Argos catalogue synths battle away with finger melodies and cheap chords, occasionally the kind that would have the 8 bit peoples foaming at the mouth, or conjuring images up of Mates of State should they have secured a sponsorship deal with Fisher Price. There’s one or two “fillers” but with the majority of the others being the kind of songs you’ve dreamed of for far too long its more than acceptable. The album has already spawned five singles and I can think of least three others good enough not least the beautiful “ba ba ba” as sweet as the title would suggest.
Maybe this’ll be the album that’s gets you through your broken heart this summer and if your hearts not broken buy it just in case.