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Music Albums Sarandon: The Completist’s Library (Wrath) 
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| Sarandon: The Completist’s Library (Wrath) |
| By Matthew Hirtes | |
Monday, 21 August 2006 Small yet perfectly formed, your average Sarandon track resembles a bonsai version of the epic pop song. So their debut gig at London’s legendary Guided Missile night saw them perform nine numbers, clocking in at just 13 minutes long. In keeping with their small-is-beautiful ethos, nothing on The Completist’s Library exceeds two minutes.Comprising 28 tracks, TCL compiles all of the four mini albums the trio have released over the last couple of years. Fronted by the experienced but wilfully amateurish guitarist and vocalist Crayola, one Simon Williams who has appeared on over 100 albums by various groups and brought out 25 solo long-players by himself, Sarandon are currently signed to Wrath, “the designer label that fashion forget.” Fellow best-kept secrets of the UK music scene. Joe Morris on bass and Simon Poole on drums complete the line-up, although vocal contributions by Big Flame’s Alan Brown and Phil Wilson of The June Brides feature too. Beginning with the word association of ‘Pin Up’, “pin up blonde girls, pin up dark girls, pin up nice girls, pin up hard girls”, the album continues in spasmodic fashion. At times an indie take on The Banana Splits, at others what appears a UK tribute to US masters of the short, sharp shock of a single, Whirlwind Heat, Sarandon also could quite conceivably have lived a previous life as the Little Shop of Horrors house band during the title’s incarnation as an off-Broadway stage musical. Packed fully of catchy lyrics and witty lines, ‘Moo’’s “You’re a cow, I wonder what you’re doing now” a case in point, Sarandon make your head nod and funny bone tickle simultaneously. Quite a feat to achieve in tracks that are over before you know it. Well, well, well: less really is more. (4¼/5) |
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