Bluffer's Guide To The Flight Deck (2004, Pointy Records / Talitres)
Il n'est nul besoin d'un « brass band » au complet pour apporter un souffle émouvant de cuivres à une composition pop-rock. Chez les Londoniens de Flotation Toy Warning, il suffit juste d'un trombone, d'une trompette et d'un bugle pour gratifier les auditeurs d'une délicieuse chair de poule, grâce aux arrangements à la fois simples et déchirants de la claviériste Vicky West. Un chant triste, des murmures comme passés au vocoder, un doux tapis de cordes, quelques gouttelettes de clavier, un solo de guitare tout en caresses, une batterie paisible, quelques percussions caverneuses... Peu importe que le titre et les paroles de cette chanson soient pour le moins elliptiques : la musique de cette splendide oraison funèbre suffit amplement à nous transporter vers un ailleurs enfin meilleur.
27 mai 2024
Paris (France), 25 avril 2005.
Vidéo éditée par Kiniskino.
Paroles : Paul Carter. Musique : Paul Carter, Ben Clay et Flotation Toy Warning.
Came to say how you feel today, how you feel inside
You can't tell me that you know how it feels
When you don't seem to feel at all
You came here today to tell me this, you think I'm stupid?
This is the funeral of our love
I came here only to say goodbye
Leonard stop the trains by any certain means
I couldn't bear to board another
She not me was the dealer
With a tiny useless fucking shelter
David pass me the wine, like you I'm "really not fine"
Did I really mean her harm?
I never set foot in the country
Donald tell me why pleasance never gets me anywhere, anymore
Was the lovely man from Mars?
I never liked Venus at all
This brittle house our love has stained
I've left before and I'll leave again
But your little blue moods drag me in
But I know you won't be bringing me down this time
Growing pains and empty days
Records played and certain shades of blue remind me still of you
But I know you won't be bringing me down this time
You can't tell me that you know how it feels
When you don't seem to feel at all
This is the funeral of our love
I came here only to say goodbye
This is the funeral of our love
I came here only to say goodbye
This is the funeral of our love
I came here only to say goodbye