Marine Girls :: Lazy Ways

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Been revisiting this one since our Deep Folk 6 mix (via Ben Watt) last spring — Marine Girls second lp, 1983’s, Lazy Ways. For those unfamiliar, prior to her teaming up with Watt to launch Everything But The Girl in 1982, Tracey Thorn co-founded this short lived post-punk outfit; a group whose entire recorded output consists of two full-lengths and a handful of singles. Less is, indeed, sometimes more.

Released in 1983, and clocking in under thirty minutes, the album feels at once singular in execution and of a piece with then contemporaries, the Raincoats, et al. While the group’s influence has evaded name-checking in the way that, say, Young Marble Giants (or the aforementioned Raincoats) have in recent years, Lazy Ways fingerprints can be acutely felt over the past three decades – from the Breeders debut lp, Pod, to the now defunct Yellow Fever.

Ethereal in a swaying manner that befits the lp’s title, this is “A Place In The Sun”.

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