Sunday, April 23, 2023

LISTENING TO - Veronica Lake by Sparks


In the drip feeding of tracks from their new album due at the end of May, we are served this beautifully tempting morsel. Veronica Lake reveals another facet of this new albums soundscape, a subtly stripped back aesthetic. Here we are presented with the merest whisper of a background rhythm, over which Russ sings a song about a wartime manufacturer opining over the bad influence of Veronica Lake's peek-a-boo-y hair style on safety and productivity. Veronica Lake did indeed tour the US in a war time awareness campaign about women's long hair being caught in machinery. Brilliantly simple satirical wit as ever.

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