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This collection contains the third and fourth Felt albums, THE
STRANGE IDOLS PATTERN AND OTHER SHORT STORIES and IGNITE THE SEVEN
CANNONS. Whereas their first two albums featured more meandering
tracks, these albums feature songs that are more terse, though
still with very elaborate arrangements. Standouts from STRANGE
IDOLS include "Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow", a cheerfully
bitter character study featuring gorgeously jangling guitars, the
oddly catchy "Dismantled King is Off the Throne", in which
Lawrence's droll delivery is nicely offset by up tempo drumming,
and "Whirlpool Vision of Shame", which features Maurice Deebank's
complex guitar lines darting around the vocals. Produced by the
Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie, IGNITE includes Felt's most
well-known track, "Primitive Painters", a glittering masterpiece
featuring astonishing backing vocals from the Cocteau Twins'
Elizabeth Fraser along with some of Lawrence's more impassioned
vocals, Gary Ainge's expressive drumming. Other standouts include
the beautiful instrumental "Serpent Shade", highlighting Martin
Duffy's keyboards, and "Southern State Tapestry", which returns the
focus to the interplay between Deebank and Lawrence's guitars. Felt
collectors should note that the reissued version of this
collection, though it sequences the albums chronologically (unlike
the original CD), it inexplicably omits the "Crucifix Heaven", a
spectacular Spanish-guitar influenced instrumental.
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