Finding love in sadness

Terry Teeth on Love and other hideous accidents by The Just Joans

With a lack of work and, really a lack of effort to find work it’s left to the dole to fund my dreams. And with this week’s money secured I decided to splash out £4 (including delivery) on the new Love and other hideous accidents by The Just Joans - after the last one from the melancholy weavers provoked a rare, magic sadness with tales of growing up and missing friendships.

‘I wont survive’ is a stunning opening track, electronic beats, shimmering guitar lines and a chorus with the sadness of a lonely magpie. ‘Teenage Tears’ has a touch of early Camera Obscura about it. There’s something about ‘Sadness’ in broad Scottish accents that hits right in the heart - it has an infinite sadness that could turn a rainbow black and white. ‘If you don’t pull…’ is the song that got me in Indietracks last year and I’ve been singing the chorus since, its another pop nugget with a magic chorus that’s probably going to appear on every mix CD that I make from now on.

‘Lets not keep in touch’, ’Hideous Accident’ and ‘Overblown gestures’ have more tear-stained stories to tell of break-ups and love gone wrong. “I know how I get when I’m drunk and alone” is a feeling most have endured. There’s a real sadness in this EP, it sheds melancholy tears as it spins in the CD player, and there seems to be none of that Twee shite that’s replacing trad-rock around every street corner in sight.

© 2009 T.Teeth

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