EASILY SUEDE (Here Come The Tears - The Tears)

Member Name: MrQuomps

Product:	Here Come The Tears - The Tears
Date:	08/11/08 (273 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Like Suede were at their best

Disadvantages: Some wallowing filler tracks

For those of you who don't know, the main men behind The Tears are Bernard Butler and Brett Anderson, the same guys from Suede.

Here Come The Tears is far better than the last Suede album, A New Morning. The opening track, Refugees, sounds stunning and reminds you how great these two are when they work together.

This album has more than just a couple of good singles though. Most of the tracks are enjoyable. Brett Anderson's voice sounds brilliant and the jingly-jangly, wailing, strumming guitars fit perfectly.

Imperfection is a sweet love song with Anderson's trademark romantic/trashy lyrics.

The Ghost Of You is genuinely quite haunting and one to get a bit weepy to (if you're a girl....... which I'm not). "The salvation army collected your things, I gave them the jewelry, all the bracelets and rings, your clothes in black bin bags, I gave them away. I tried to move on, but the ghost of you stays"

Track 7 - Lovers was a pretty big single off the album. And rightly so. It's a lovely pop song. A lot of the lyrical content on this album is to do with being in a relationship. Mostly in a cute, lovey-dovey way.

The album lulls a bit for me for a few songs until track 10 - Beautiful Pain which is a cracking ballady song. In fact the remainder of the album is pretty slow and low-key from here on. Slightly boring in places but mostly pretty decent stuff.

I spent a tenner on it when it came out and I still listen to it regularly so if you've any interest in Suede or britrock or indie or any of that kind of thing then I'd say it's worth grabbing a copy for a few quid from somewhere.

Summary: Better than most of the rubbish out there!!!