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DOWNLOAD: The Wave Pictures - Bye Bye Bubble Belly

Posted 5/4/2009 7:04 AM by Kev Kharas

Tags: storytelling, anti-folk

It's hard to think of many, or any, collections of men as charming as The Wave Pictures. For the uninitiated, frontman David Tattersall, bassist Franic Rozycki and drummer Jonny Helm hail from the village of Wymeswold in the middle of England, which, according to Wikipedia, has a population of 1,000. I'm not sure if with the trio's departure to east London that number came down to 997 or was previously 1,003 but what's for sure is that they're missed: telling stories in pop music, without being earnest or pretentious about it, is an incredibly hard thing to do. With its yawning horns, minimal arrangement and self-deprecating lyrics that consider falling for the woman who signs dole cheques in Whitechapel Welfare Office, "Bye Bye Bubble Belly" treads that thin line The Wave Pictures have always stalked so well - funny but not wacky, charming but not smarmy, light-hearted but still affecting. Find more of the same on new album If You Leave It Alone and rejoice.

Sounds Like: Jonathan Richman, a less maudlin Morrissey, Sesame Street

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