Tim deadpans, detailing their first meeting. Everyone cracks up. A couple of other names that didn t make the cut were The Rum Crooks and Michael Jordan s Dad. And lo and behold, they congealed their strengths and started to develop a signature sound, combining the rich, warm feedback of My Bloody Valentine and Flying Saucer Attack with the euphoric pop hooks of any number of the bands on the Creation label like Biff Bam Pow, Jazz Butcher, The Pastels and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Tim sings in a plaintive, honest voice that sounds like he s singing about something a lot more important than it actually is.
Lyrics are like nothing.
There s only one or two songs that I even know the lyrics to the whole song. I m still not sure of. It s more about the texture of the syllables, the cadence of the words, than literal meaning. They re first album should be out as soon as early fall on the groovy Omnibus label. It may or may not be called Carl Lewis is the Fastest Man Alive or Naked Rage.