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01. The Bitter Springs - One More Sunset
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02. The Bitter Springs - Girls In F.I.T.S.
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03. The Bitter Springs - Keep The Rain
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04. The Bitter Springs - Angry All The Time
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05. The Bitter Springs - Mistakes
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06. The Bitter Springs - Men Behaving Badly
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07. The Bitter Springs - The Living Bread
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08. The Bitter Springs - The Odd Shower
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09. The Bitter Springs - And Then Forever
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10. The Bitter Springs - Words Of Love
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11. The Bitter Springs - Cold Semen Rain
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12. The Bitter Springs - Life Goes On Forever
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13. The Bitter Springs - Everything You've Done
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14. The Bitter Springs - Until Love Don't Exist
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15. The Bitter Springs - The Addison Brothers (Vic's Mix)
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ARTIST
BITTER SPRINGS, THE
TITLE
The Odd Shower + Excretus In Completus
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TINY GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS
CATALOG #
PICI 025CD
PICI 025CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/7/2020
Incredibly, despite two decades of recording history,
The Bitter Springs
have never had a full-length vinyl release until now.
The Odd Shower
has been four years in the making, and is, unequivocally, the band's finest work. Listeners will be dazzled by the consistency and peculiar brilliance of each and every track. As a label, Tiny Global Productions sometimes afforded the chance to get behind a release that's more deserving of attention than albums by artists with much bigger profiles, and
The Odd Shower
is a prime example of such an occasion. Dismayed by the lack of attention to their earlier work, much of
Simon
and crew's recent work was released only digitally. Rather than continue on that path, they redoubled their efforts to create an album which deserved their full treatment. A 7" 45,
Love Rat/Less Than Love
preceded this album and some of the tracks hereon, but as infectious as that single was, it provides by sparing hints to the magnificent contents of the album. There's a Postcard feel to the album -- that bilious humor, a sarcastic sentimentality hovering in contrast to absurdist portraits of the modern age, and
Vic Godard
's ever-present influence best explained by his newly enshrined position as the band's organist. Their pugilistic yet literary sensibilities may be at odds, but they've allowed for the addictive electro-tango of "Words Of Love", the bizarre social commentary/celebration/comedy of "Girls In F.I.T.S." (that's "fighting in the streets"), the
Fall
ish guitar and keyboard rant underlining "Angry All The Time", and minimalist folk homily "Mistakes", which self-reflects for barely a minute. It is a homespun masterpiece, and if its physical release is a surprise, the curious will be delighted to learn that five other songs from the sessions are included on a special (and limited) EP called
Excretus In Completus
. Two of these are from what might have the follow-up single to "Love Rat", two others are songs which couldn't be included on the album for reasons of running time, and the label also added Vic Godard's remix of "The Addison Brothers".
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