DIY Heartbreak (Girlfriends 88-05)
After the surprising electro fun and intensity of If You Change Your City… You re Sure To Change Your Style , The Beautiful Few return with a starkly autobiographical gem – DIY HEARTBREAK (Girlfriends 88-05).
With Edmond currently on Augie March duties and Karen concentrating on Actor/Model, Troy J Parker and mainstay Kieran Carroll were left to get to work. Recorded in Troy s back shed in Shepparton, DIY HEARTBREAK finds Carroll in expansive narrative form with Parker free to place his experimental hand on all things musical.
From the raw rock of insistent opener The Sisters, The Mary Chain and The Triffids, to the driving pop of Nowhere Anywhere In The World, to the 1920s music box revelations of German Affair, to the uplifting French Girl (Carriage Away) and the sad gentleness of closer A Little Romance, DIY Heartbreak surprises for its lack of bitterness (except for Three Quick Weeks ) and charms in its hopeful, nostalgic reverie via songs like You Were My Major Thing That Year and From Your Atlas At Home.
Their fifth full length-er since 99 s debut The October Lovers, The Beautiful Few continue to release moving work. DIY Heartbreak in all its thematic, peaks and troughs nakedness is no exception.