Elevator Music: Album Companion Book

by Simon Indelicate

Featuring the complete lyrical content of the The Indelicates' 2015 album Elevator Music, along with extensive footnotes and insights into the production of each song.

Genres: Music

68 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Alex Sarll]

Last night I watched the Indelicates launch their new album. The sound was tinny, the band were under-rehearsed (some excuse about 'having a baby' - priorities, guys!), the crowd was full of tossers - and they were still amazing, because they've once again made the best album of the year. Partly this is down to the musical talent, the wit, but largely it's down to the concepts (for this is, once again, a concept album) - who else would think to write Eugene Cernan's lament for the lost space age, let alone an entire album about the Internet attaining consciousness, getting fed up with all the shit we pump into it, and fucking off for the stars? Herein are compiled the lyrics, scene-setting interstitials, and production notes which will make a lot more sense to people who are remotely musical than they did to me. But the real gold, the thing that sets Indelicates lyric books aside from everyone else's, comes as ever in the footnotes - equal parts self-justification, pointing out how clever they've been in case we miss it, and ridiculous jokes.