Nude Restaurant is the third album by Glasgow based The 1990's and the bands first album since Kicks in 2009. The album was recorded in July 2011 and has only just been released by the good folks at Last Night From Glasgow records.
The album opens with Psyche-Ward Pick-Up No 9 that takes us on a ride into a damaged mind struggling to find a connection while in the Psyche-Ward this has a steady chug going on and references all sorts of things along the way. It's also one of the few songs to name check RD Laing.
Walk The Plank should have a pirate metal re-mix, but this isn't a piratical song, more like an updated Cockney Rebel with some girl group back up vocals and a good sneer to the main vocals.
(My Baby's) Double Espresso is the first song on the album I know I heard when it came out first time round as a single and it still sounds damn good to this Double Espresso addict, I love the way it compares a woman to the effects the Coffee has, yes it has the jitters in places and can't sit still either.
What's Up With The Midnight Me is a drunken argument with himself about how much to consume or how much more to consume and then wondering about the state he was in, with some guitar interjections like he's staggering about in a semi stupor.
Slapstick is a slower song with not too many Slapstick elements but it will draw you further into 1990's world. Fassbinder Would Have Loved techno is not only a great song title but also a rather fine song with sardonic lyrics and no it isn't a Techno song.
Blue Stockings isn't a modern update of the classic Shiny Stockings but is a good echoey reverb laden song with a soaring guitar solo that makes you want to see the person wearing those Blue Stockings.
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Fun Size isn't about chocolate bars, although it might have ideas of what to do for some fun as he sings about someone who needs help to see bands live and other issues, some people might find parts of the lyrics to this close to the edge, but then liking shorter women isn't a bad thing to do at all.
The Brown Bunny stays in the same pocket and flies by. Diamond Drag seems to want to re-work Dollars In Drag, aka Diamond Dogs era bowie for the new century, it also has a frayed at the edges guitar solo ending that's brilliant.
Aquarium is a stop start song of travel and all sorts of other stuff, that you need to hear a few times to work out all the lyrical twists and slang.
Can't Get Up Can't Stand up is an anthem to be so out of it you can't get off the floor, struggling to focus and make sense of anything around you.
The album closes with the feedback into to Psychic Canada a rumbling frazzled psyche pop song to get you looking for an appointment with Canada's foremost Psychic as you work out exactly where all the lyrics have been stolen from, including The Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan et al.
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