Peggy Sue "Fossils And Other Phantoms" CD (2010)

Details: The debut album by Brighton, UK's Peggy Sue. CD format, great condition used item.

Description: "Like the mythical sirens, Rosa Slade and Katy Young – the London-born, Brighton-based frontwomen of Peggy Sue – sing with a lilting sweetness that is wholly deceptive, belying the undercurrent of fury in their lyrics, the agitations of their music. Unlike the sirens, however, they sing not to lure men to destruction but to detail the wrecking of their own hearts. Whether it's Young musing on duplicitous relationships (Watchman) or brooding on how she would spoon with an ex (The Shape We Made), or Slade struggling to forget the smell of a former lover by slinking downtown, where "I see your face in everyone", the two women appear horribly bruised by love. This could make for a miserable album, and it does slide into morosity in its middle section. Mostly, though, they combat melancholy with some startlingly abrasive, PJ Harvey-style guitars, giddy whirls of accordion, and a thrilling array of clattering, thundering, sharp and snappy percussion from their show-stealing drummer, Olly Joyce."--Maddy Costa, The Guardian (UK)

Grade: NM (CD/Cover)

CD TRACK LISTING:

1. Long Division Blues
2. Yo Mama
3. I Read It In The Paper
4. Green Grow The Rushes
5. Watchman
6. She Called
7. Careless Talk Costs Lives
8. The Remainder
9. Matilda
10. February Snow
11. Fossils
12. The Shape We Made