Edith - Tellison Single Review

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When songs like this gyrate with joyous energy on a gloomy autumn evening it's difficult not to pine for festival season. Tellison's sophomore album, 'Wages of Fear', was made for tightly packed crowds of sweaty strangers drinking warm beer in the sunshine, bouncing like lunatics and singing along in a pitch not dissimilar to Ian Brown's infamous vocal performance at Reading in 1996.

Second single 'Edith' is near perfect indie pop, laced with a dash of emo and driven by a pogo-tastic drum beat towards an imperious refrain that the Kaiser Chiefs would die for. However, it's the smarter than your average bear lyrics that beguile with Stephen Davidson singing 'Someone's gonna get hurt tonight'. It isn't for those delinquents who made the Kaiser's 'I Predict A Riot' a calling card for moronic violence as this West London four piece are way smarter than that. Name checking Edith Wharton and written after Davidson read 'The Age of Innocence' they blissfully lament the fact we're all going to get our hearts broken as life just isn't as compellingly powerful, dramatically satisfying and reassuringly structured as a work of fiction. It's angst, but with an ironic captivating smile!

Simon Ramsay

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