Sandra's Wedding are a Goole, England band. They definitely sound English, but sound more like Prefab Sprout or Aztec Camera than any of my "normal" English fare.
So, I guess this is more stylish, smooth-sounding pop. I'll throw in a few more bonus references: The Style Council, Orange Juice and Lloyd Cole.
Speaking of making comparisons. This blog is built upon it and I do realize it may seem like I'm saying a band or artist isn't original. That's never my intention. Digital Regress in their write-up for the new Famous Mammals release said it best when they said that comparisons are "in the stitching, but the design & thrust" is the band's own sound. I like that.
"The Hopeful Boy Replacement Service" is available on CD from Subjangle. This is the LP version and it is self-released by the band.
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Number 5 in my series, ‘I hear the river laugh.’
Drilling down
Ever narrower now, energy building,
Sluicing water upwards, roaring over mudflats,
Through to Goole, swamping the Ouse and Trent,
Removing ten thousand years
Of post-glacial civilisation.
York and Venice cannot be saved,
By Tidal Barriers.
Profits rise with the water
Until drilling down means holding on
Against the soaring…
Ur domesticated Sampo post be resonating with me. I have slept exactly no hours and have to be up in 3 so apologies on advance for how illegible this may be.
I gotta personal HC that Sampo has a somewhat 'yearning' for a simple life in the sense that he'd like to have the option to just sit and chill sometimes. But not in a constant sense. He wants to be loved and go home to a family and it kinda hits at times, usually when he's exhausted or finished a rough operation.
But that's quickly followed by disgust? almost because he knows how unsatisfying that sounds when he actually has energy again. He'd be restless. His life rebolves around thrill and gettin away with obscene stuff not because he has to but because it's what he needs. Living a cushy life is the equivalent to forcing a mountain lion to live in a box. It's nice to get set meals everyday but by god is it boring.
I like to think that when he and Hep first start being serious when dating, Gep opens up his home to him. Gets concerned from how much he pits himself in harms way and tries to convince him to settle just a bit. That probs lasts all of a week because
a) he knows Shampoo too well to expect that plan to go down well and
b) he begins to notice how Sampo's practically bouncing off the walls with a constant anxiety like the walls are closing in on him.
He settles for patchin him up if he comes back in a rough way and accepting that sometimes he won't be home for a few days just to crawl through the window at 3am with some trinket strapped to his hip and a busted ankle.
For the high(ish) morals he holds, he's still a Fool. There's been times in his past that he's not particularly proud of and there's been decisions that weigh on him even now but he wouldn't couldn't change. Because that's just him.
I've porbs used some words I'd wanan change out but we do a sleepy long ask. Hope you've been doin well n ur dreams are full of historically accurate cannibalism <3
Egg lemme sleep pls. You can't keep filling my smol lil brain with Sampard T-T
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YESSSS YES!!! YOU GET IT. im at work rn so i cant say much but you FUCKING get it
i think like sampo Does to some degree want to just.. live and chill and have a peaceful life. like an actual set home he can return to and relax in. but hes also not entirely built for that. he cant just settle and live the good life.n gep at some point gets that n at least always has his door open for him. or his second story window
i haveto go im literallt hiding in my boss' office typing this but i have SO MANY ideas n thoughts bout it oujagha