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- Artist(s): Gavin Thomson
- Summary: Stephen Pastel and Gavin Thomson collaborated on the soundtrack to Graham Eatough's stage adaptation of David Keenan's 2017 novel of the same name.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Stage & Screen, Post-Punk
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Jul 15, 2024The stage show in this form is a perfect distillation of all the themes and feelings the book digs into, boiling them down to the truest, most intense nuggets, and Pastel and Thompson's music is a big part of why it works so well both in the show and as a stand-alone album.
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UncutJul 15, 2024The music adds majesty to the industrial primitivism which purports to be the output of the fictional band, Memorial Device, with Pastel ensuring period veracity by revisiting cassettes of his teenage jams. [Jul 2024, p.38]
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The WireAug 6, 2024Pastel and Thomson don’t attempt to (re)create the actual music made by Memorial Device; instead they piece together a suggestive collage of sounds evocative of the post-punk era and representative of wistful remembrance. The Pastels’ dreamy tendencies are well suited to this brief. [Sep 2024, p.54]
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Record CollectorJul 15, 2024The opening Introduction To Why I Did It is a pocket masterpiece, a lyrical meditation on lost smalltown 80s indie youth, but often this musically satisfying album feels wanting for more of the story which inspired it. [Aug 2024, p.105]
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MojoJul 15, 2024On record it’s more the spoken-word sections that grab the listener. [Jul 2024, p.93]