Trashcan Sinatras - I Wish You'd Met Her [Single]

  

The Opposite of Pendulum

Trashcan Sinatras arrived on the music scene properly in 1990, dragging their bittersweet pop down from Scotland at precisely the same time as most of Britain was E'd up to the tits and treating Shaun Ryder like the new Jesus. The inevitable happened, and fewer song titles have ever been more prophetic than that of the opening track off their debut album: Obscurity Knocks.

Sustained for the last twenty years by a number of small labels, busking in London's Tube and their last album 'Weightlifting' was funded by a grant from the Scottish Arts Council. 2009 marks the release of 'In The Music, the band's first long player for almost five years. On the evidence of 'I Wish You'd Met Her' little sounds to have changed musically in the interim, as gently rolling guitars and honeyed melodies knit together to eventually create a coffee table pop effect highly reminiscent of Stray-era Aztec Camera.

You won't dance to this like a robot from 1984, but this is a song for people with two left feet anyway.