"Weightlifting" by Trashcan Sinatras (2004)
Artist: |
Trashcan Sinatras |
Album: |
Weightlifting |
Released In: |
2004 |
Reviewed By: |
Kyle England |
Grade: |
4.0 |
Who could have predicted that eight years since their last release, and 11 years (!) since their last domestic release, Scotland's long lost sons, Trashcan Sinatras would come out of virtually nowhere and offer up one of the prettiest records of the year? No one should have - that's for sure. Particularly when their last album, A Happy Pocket was barely a blip on the radar in 1996, even for European listeners. But Weightlifting (which is in reference to the self-titled track about great weights being lifted off of shoulders and chests, not bodybuilding) is the type of album that fans of Trashcan Sinatras classic 1990 debut Cake have been waiting for. Weightlifting is built upon what made this group so fantastic in the first place. Harmonizing vocals, jangle-pop guitar chiming, and Francis Reader's angelic vocals that at it's best, is comparable to the likes of Roddy Frame from Aztec Camera and Morrissey.
The opening song "Welcome Back" seems to have the most fitting song title here - and it's the most 'rocking' track for that matter - with Reader blasting out the line "Out with the monsters I knew at the time, but now I know better, I'm better, I'm fine." That line of confidence seems to beam throughout every aspect of this album. "What Women Do To Men" and "A Coda" are a hauntingly lovely pair of bittersweet songs about love lost, but the elegant beauty of "Usually" and "All The Dark Horses" win out over all the rest.
Weightlifting seems to be a resurrection of sorts for Trashcan Sinatras. Hopefully this will be the second coming that finds an audience of willing believers searching for the very doctrine they espouse, who might have glossed over it the first time or been too young the first go round. Yea verily, let it come to pass.
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