To people of a certain age this track might seem like a nostalgia trip but to a younger crowd it might also be a timely warning not to give up those basic pleasures. I have nothing agains the march of technology, it shapes and makes good music but the balance has to lie somewhere nearer man than machine. All Stereo Multiplex is gently saying is when all your music is so technologically reliant that live shows are basically karaoke, when music has no physical presence, that it is just transient digital information, when music venues have become hipster coffee bars serving MoccaCoccaFrappaChappaLinos out of a shoe, when there are only stadium shows and tickets cost a month’s wages, maybe then you will look back to the simple pleasures being promoted here.
Everyone has to make their own mistakes and when they do, when they remember the warnings that they failed to heed, when they finally find their way back home, songs like this will be there to say welcome back, grab a beer, do you want to hear a cool album?
