Everything\u2019s Shining Bright The Lazy Recordings 1985-1987<\/strong> A fitting, comprehensive double CD companion to \u2018Lovely\u2019, Cherry Red\u2019s re-release of the Coventry band\u2019s \u2018hit\u2019 material, \u2018Everything\u2019s Shining Bright\u2019 has The Primitives how many prefer them, however; at their fuzzy, distorted best. The Primitives Everything\u2019s Shining Bright The Lazy Recordings 1985-1987 (Cherry Red CDBRED 560) A fitting, comprehensive double CD companion to \u2018Lovely\u2019, Cherry Red\u2019s re-release of the Coventry band\u2019s \u2018hit\u2019 material, \u2018Everything\u2019s Shining Bright\u2019 has The Primitives how many prefer them, however; at their fuzzy, distorted best. As the blonde band most likely, and fronted by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,128,88,71,74],"tags":[750,580,305,758],"series":[],"class_list":["post-7425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-hot-plugs","category-indie","category-music","category-reviews","tag-cherry-red-records","tag-eyeplug-net","tag-scenester","tag-the-primitives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7431,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions\/7431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7425"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=7425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(Cherry Red CDBRED 560)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAs the blonde band most likely, and fronted by Tracie Cattell (think; a young June Whitfield on sugar mice) with her sweet voice winding languorously around the shambolic, pedal-to-the-metal guitars and tidy, collected drums, it\u2019s easy to hear what grabbed the attention of the mighty RCA records.
\n\u2018Thru The Flowers\u2019 is a distorted delight, with a beautiful guitar interlude in the middle. \u2018Across My Shoulder\u2019 marks an early appearance of the whining feedback and grinding guitars that featured on so many records of the period, although rarely in a pure pop context like this one.
\n\u2018She Don\u2019t Need You\u2019 is another that hits the ground running, with a deft winding vocal and a jarring dead halt. I always cared for the tin-can echo of \u2018Really Stupid\u2019 a classic, mocking thrash of a song that made even indie fans want to shake a shoe to it. A bit.
\n\u2018We Found A Way To The Sun\u2019s lively, romantic opening chords and syrupy lyrics are an obvious tribute to the New York band everyone referenced in those far off days. The welcome use of Eastern rhythms informs \u2018Where The Wind Blows\u2019, a jangly number with a characteristic vocal from Tracie.A personal favourite, the country-tinged \u2018Stop Killing Me\u2019 is a high spot, closely followed by the psychobilly workout, \u2018Buzz Buzz Buzz\u2019.
\nThe slow, relaxed guitar arpeggio of \u2018Laughing Up My Sleeve\u2019 and \u2018Ocean Blue\u2019s pleasing impact percussion recalls the New York band once more, this time in romantic mood. The slightly faster treatment of the guitar-heavy \u2018Shadow\u2019 does the song many favours, and the echoey voice and winding, magical beat has a suggestion of danger to it.
\nA new(er) version of \u2018Thru The Flowers\u2019 graces this CD; a sweeter, countrified voice and twangy guitars blended with some pizzicato strings works well, without over-egging the pudding. \u2018Everything\u2019s Shining Bright\u2019 peps up the shaking rockabilly beat and romantic vocal, to good effect.
\nThe inclusion of some demo material reveals their rawness; \u2018Nothing Left\u2019, with the vocal rarely getting to the sweet spot, and lacking punch; \u2018Really Stupid\u2019 is gloriously fuzzy, and even though the vocal has the same weakness, there\u2019s a hint of quality in it. Live demos follow but add little to the story, and our first CD ends with a soft, warm vocal and the lively twang of another version of \u2018Nothing Left\u2019.
\nThe second CD is a mixed bag of unreleased sessions and a live set at the ICA, both from 1987, which show what can happen when a band aim to be shambolic. Aside from an affecting \u2018Nothing Left\u2019 , a lively \u2018Out Of Reach\u2019 and the slow, well executed \u2018Don\u2019t Want Anything To Change\u2019 , the latter of which hints at a possible future direction that never happened, the extras here add little to the story of one of the 80\u2019s finest pop bands. The band\u2019s trademark fuzzy sound and Tracie\u2019s sweet voice are a little lost bouncing around the ICA\u2019s hard white walls. Most songs sound rushed, as if the place was about to be closed down by the authorities, which I suppose was a possibility, given some of the artwork which graced its walls at the time.\u00a0Turn up the volume, bass and treble fully and enjoy. BUY HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"