Number 26'When Do We Start Fighting...' by Seafood
Trotter’s Top Ten position : Top Ten in 2001
UK Chart high : DNC in 2001
Look at that chart position Britain - DNC means 'did not chart' - and that's not just the top 100, that's the top 200 - jeez, what were we thinking? Yes, there was more than a little Pixies, JAMC, Pumpkins homage going on - but when exactly has that ever been a bad thing, hmm? This album always will have a special place in my collection as it was one of those 'like a song, never heard them before, risk buying the album, my god I love it' scenarios. There's plenty more of these examples on this chart but I guess Seafood is made all the more frustrating because they never got anywhere near the adulation they deserved even on subsequent albums - not just commercially, but critically. The lead single 'Cloaking', with its 'Get Up Soldier!' rallying cry positioned them as yet another loud-quiet-loud ambassador but the album is far, far more textured than that - case in point the heartbreakingly beautiful 'What May be the Oldest' collaboration with Madder Rose vocalist Mary Lorson or the starts-as-spoken-word-ends-in-cacophony 'He Collects Dust'. What's even more annoying is how many seafood recipe videos you have to trawl through when searching for their video clips on youtube (shakes fist at universe!). I can't even introduce you to them on Spotify for feck's sake, other than the 'Western Battle' track for some reason. Do yourself a favour and just but this album FFS!
Look at Cloaking ; Splinter
Listen to a sampling of the Top Fifty on Spotify as we go or the 'one from each album' version
Look at Cloaking ; Splinter
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