Pretty is pretty nice, but the promise of true beauty makes tough critics of us all. Add Hounds of Love by The Futureheads to your Rock Band song library. More ephemeral than Clor, more cerebral than the Rakes, Field Music has, like the Magic Numbers, fashioned a distinctive voice and near-perfect arrangements, but the songs hint at greatness nearly as often as they achieve it. I'm just saying.Īfter their first two singles, it's hard not to be let down by good-enoughs like the ambitious, briefly cacophonous "Tell Me Keep Me", string-laden "Luck Is a Fine Thing", and staccato, saxophone-blearing "17". Meanwhile, the band's self-consciously complex, maximalist arrangements and Sparks- or even Yes-like vocal heights call up that suddenly-not-dirty (if prefixed with "hyper") word: prog. I still say stupendous first single "Shorter Shorter" was, true to its name, the latter album's flip-side shortened, haunted and harried by imminent mortality.
Opener "If Only the Moon Were Up" introduces a smattering of Revolver horn oompahs and GeoHa guitarisms ca. Second single "You Can Decide" is the band's most immediately compelling track, with copious oohing, spastic handclaps, and eloquently stuttering chorus: "So if you know, you know, you know/ Let me." "Got to Write a Letter" benefits from slippery acoustic guitars and fairly sharp wordplay, though none as adroit as "I've given up thinking" from the album's rare sad song, the still-sun-dappled "Like When You Meet Someone Else". The hounds of love are calling Ive always been a coward, and I dont know whats good for me. Below is a table of the meta data for Hounds of Love. Hounds of Love has a BPM/tempo of 168, is in the key A Maj and has a duration of 03:02. It is track 19 in the album Old School Indie. The lyrics tend toward the commonplace, which if not beside the point pretty much is the point: "You're so pretty/ I could talk to you all night", chime the Brothers Brewis, their sweet-nothings granted the wings of soaring melody. The Futureheads by The Futureheads album reviews & Metacritic score: This debut LP from the English band certainly recalls English bands from the early 80s, most notably XTC. When I was a child, running in the night, i was afraid of what might be Hiding in the dark and hiding on the street, and of what was following me. Hounds of Love is a song by The Futureheads released on 22nd April 2022. Dual lead vocalists Peter and David Brewis swap quixotic, often-falsetto harmonies as indebted to Pet Sounds as to "Hounds of Love". HOUNDS OF LOVE lyrics by Futureheads: When I was a child, running in the night, i was afraid of what might be / Hiding in the dark and hiding on the s. That song, like the album's other epiphanies, is a sparkling construct of whirring guitars, eccentric percussion, windmill-tilting bass, and Andrew Moore's piano embellishments.