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Gaze

Gaze is the The Beautiful South's tenth album. The release was supported by a tour entitled Gaze With The Beautiful South.'Persistently popular and defiantly uncool' (Time Out UK), The Beautiful South return with their ninth studio album. Illustrating why one in seven households in the UK own one of their records, 'Gaze' ('It's a short word that means a lot. It has depth. Plus it's a double meaning. And there is a song on the album about gay men' so says the singer, Paul Heaton) features 12 more vignettes of true pop and real life all penned once again by the invincible Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray partnership. Another stunning mix of luscious melodies and delightfully subversive lyrics, standout tracks include the bittersweet 'Let Go With The Flow', the barbed '101 per cent Man' and the gorgeous, closing 'Last Waltz', featuring the band's fantastic new female vocalist, Alison 'Lady' Wheeler. Features 12 tracks including the single 'Just A Few Things That I Ain't', & packaged in a die-cut slipcase. Go Discs! 2003.

In what has become a familiar pattern, Quench, the Beautiful South's sixth regular album release (not counting the singles compilation Carry on Up the Charts), entered the British charts at number one in October 1998, following the number two success of its single, "Perfect 10," while in the U.S. its release was delayed until July 1999, when it made no commercial impression at all. As usual, Paul Heaton and his comrades take a jaundiced look at the world while crooning melodically over pop, rock, and cocktail jazz tracks. The CD booklet contains only one photograph, an out-of-focus shot of a barroom, and as the album's title implies, Quench is awash in alcohol. Its most telling self-portrait may be "Look What I Found in My Beer," in which Heaton views his musical career as his salvation from alcoholism and self-loathing. "Look what I found in the mic," he sings, "An end to screwed-up drinking and a Paul I actually like." But he often uses metaphors to get across his viewpoint, notably on such songs as 'The Slide," "The Table," and "Window Shopping for Blinds." Singer Jacqueline Abbott serves as his foil and expands the dramatic possibilities, especially on the album-closing "Your Father and I," in which parents tell conflicting stories about a child's conception and birth, only to conclude, "Your father and I won't tell the truth." If the Beautiful South's early work mixed biting sarcasm with pop riffs, Quench finds the group playing in less of a pop style, while Heaton's lyrics have become more bitter and self-pitying, but no less witty. Still, American recognition continues to seem unlikely for a writer who likes to make puns involving Peter Lorre and a lorry (that's a truck to us Yankees).

Quench

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