It’s an album that took 20 years to record according to Touching Grace and with a title like ‘Sunrise Meltdown’ it might have emerged from The Eagles, perhaps the Stones on a good day.
The last single from this album that they offered up, the wonderfully titled ‘Elephants & Armpits’, had a proggy rock feel to it while before that ‘Virtue’, which is the final track on the 10-track album, might, I observed, have first seen the light of day somewhere in a southern US state.
So what delights does ‘Seafood’ offer up?
Well the lyrics refer to it being “puked up by “beautiful girls” in some or other surreal street scene that also embraces “Superstitious stars on their quick fix/annoying people, wonderful street crowd”.
It’s how I imagine Hollywood Boulevard to be around 0100 on a Saturday morning.
On the previous single they made it pretty clear what it was about – “an absurd amount of elephant decorations in our studio and we sweat a lot when we play.”
This time you need a cinematic imagination to put the music, words and imagery into a cohesive, collective shape and even then you’re only scratching at the surface.
What’s a lot easier to get to grips with is the musical stylisation. ‘Psych’ is a word banded around frequently by bands that aren’t psychy at all but with this song Touching Grace are merely taking over from where Traffic left off in 1967, with a hole in their shoe, and waiting to meet up with Lucy, in the sky with diamonds.
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