No Need to Be Downhearted

top 10 albums of 2007 (10 items)
list by Phil

The Electric Soft Parade Are Masters of Reinvention. If You Trace Your Favourite Artists There Can Be Said to Be Two Groups, Those who Peddle and Stick to a Sound You Love (Think Oasis, the Strokes, Abba, - for Example) and Those that Constantly Twist and Turn Your Perceptions of them and Push their Own Abilities as Performers and Writers, Whilst Still Somehow Never Losing their Own Inimitable Traits (Think Robert Wyatt, the Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals). With 'no Need to Be Downhearted' the Electric Soft Parade Root Themselves as Firmly in the Latter Category.