Writing about music without guidelines to follow is an exercise in freedom that allows me to come and go in time and thus not be tied to 'releases or 'rarities', much less to trendy genres or sub-genres.
Not long ago, between listening to the new albums by Dummy and La Luz, thinking about typing half a dozen words about one of them, who knows why I remembered a song that I hadn't heard in a long time. And then when I pressed play on “Drink the elixir”, the two (great) new albums went back to the queue and lost their turn to Drink methe debut of the forgotten quartet Salad released in 1995 and currently playing here.
The band was born in England amidst a profusion of British groups led by girls (Sundays, Echobelly, Elastica, Sleeper, Catatonia, Lush, etc.), led by former MTV Europe VJ Marijne Van Der Vlugt, but even with their aforementioned debut reaching 15th position on the UK album chart at the time of its release, few people outside the indie ghetto realized (or understand) how much Drink me It's fucking awesome.
Driven by Marijne's voice and Paul Kennedy's 'loose' guitar (like Joey Santiago), the album opens with two deliciously catchy songs, “Motorbike to heaven” and (mainly) “Drink the elixir”; it slows down in “Machine of menace” and “Warmth of the heart”, and from beginning to end it refers more to other North American guitar bands with women at the front (Breeders, Throwing Muses, Veruka Salt) than to their compatriots from the Britpop melting pot.
Two years later they launched Ice creamhis second work that has its moments but is, in my opinion, much inferior to its predecessor. I don't know why they agree with me or because the musical wave in which they were – or were – inserted became foam, island dismissed Salad and the group subsequently disbanded. Two decades later they were back in action, but if the magic was already undone in 97, let alone in 2019…
However, that's a conversation for another day, today what matters is discovering or rediscovering Drink me. Listen to the stalk!
In the spotifalho
Source: https://pequenosclassicosperdidos.com.br/2024/10/18/salad-drink-me-1995/
