The Earlies - 'Morning Wonder' (679)
4/5
By: Thomas Hannan
A single, over five minutes long, that doesn't even kick in with any vocals until nearly half way through it. Bloody lovely.
Because when it does, with its merely two lines of seemingly inconsequential babble about things being alright (baby) and a request to be taken home, it sounds like the Beach Boys if Brian Wilson had been signed by Warp when he was in his reclusive period instead of just taking lots of drugs (oh, and writing 'Smile'). For such a lengthy piece, it really does seem to fly by (what's that old adage about time and having fun?), over just before the simplicities become overused and the melody soothes to such an extent you forget what it was you were about to do with the rest of your day and instead just drift off, blissfully unaware of anything much at all.
A gentle advert for the virtues of restraint and the higher, more tuneful pleasures, 'Morning Wonder' is an exercise in both where to draw the line and quite how delicately one can draw it.
Artists in this article: The Earlies
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