The Lucksmiths – The Cassingle Revival
Because you promised when it happens / you’ll return
Earlier today I was checking out an album by Jeremy Messersmith and noticed that, like many others, he’s selling cassette tape copies next to the downloads and the vinyl.
The Lucksmiths of Melbourne had our burgeoning tapestalgia pegged way back in 2002. But instead of another sly dig at what, even then, must have seemed inevitable, by its last verse this song becomes something altogether more wistful.
This is the soundtrack to every sun-dappled hipstamatic photo of city treetops you took last year, and as usual I didn’t understand the weight of that until much too late.
(The way they sing “noticing” in the opening line still hurts.)
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