Father - Dancing Major download free

Father only ever made one record. In this way they have had the perfect career. So many bands toil away for years, churning out album after album, only ever managing about five good songs. Father condense that career into one record. You at once own everything they've ever done and all their greatest songs. 'Dancing Major' is the first track and is their best. Guitar and banjo strum heavenly. It's like the strings are all quite tight because it sounds like an orchestra of rubber bands. It reminds me of when I would make a primitive guitar by stretching elastic bands over an empty tissue box. 'Canal' restores your faith in music. Sometimes I think that music is over, that there's nothing left anyone can do. This gives you hope that there are still good songs to be written. 'Guess my weight' is more strummed banjo with intoned vocals like some kind of buddhist chant. 'Now I've changed my minder' is strum pop thrash, the banjo takes some heavy abuse, imagine George Formby fronting Black Flag. 'Christmas Now' is more tuneful strumming plus a melancholic vocal. And with their last note Father disappear forever.