‘CLOSURE’ TRACKLISTING : <\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Closure
2. Landline
3. Exile
4. Let Me Introduce You
5. Living For Other People
6. You Never Stop Loving (The One That You Loved)
7. Attention To Life
8. I Left You Twice, Not Once<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘Closure’ <\/em>is the aptly-named, 12th and final official album by cult London-based Anglo-French self-proclaimed “ghost rock” group, marking their 20th year of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Closure\u2019 <\/em>unabashedly echoes a track from their 2000 album, \u2018Artists\u2019 Rifles\u2019<\/em> entitled, \u2018No Closure.\u2019 <\/em>As founder member and songwriter Glen Johnson explains, \u201cPsychological closure, as a concept, seems to have become more and more prevalent in recent years, with people searching for some sort of a mythical formal conclusion, particularly to broken relationships, so that they can move on. But I would argue that you can\u2019t just brick these things up.\u2019 Indeed, this theme permeates much of the album, most evidently in the title track, (\u201cLet\u2019s move this rock and seal this cave\u2026\u201d) but also in the self-evident, \u2018You Never Stop Loving (The One That You Loved\u2019). The minimal electronic pop song, \u2018Exile,\u2019<\/em> likewise, is an appeal to a former lover who no longer returns the calls of her banished beau, now reduced to wandering the landscape but still living in the same house, should she ever come knock on his door. \u2018Living For Other People\u2019 <\/em>beautifully paints a picture of Johnson, alone in the backstreets of Rotherhithe, South East London, \u201cpassive, watching these women never, ever having suffered charm\u201d and \u201cthese knotted men with upturned hearts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Closure,\u2019<\/em> includes a guest vocal appearance from Peter Milton Walsh, singer of acclaimed Australian chamber pop band, The Apartments on \u2018Attention To Life.\u2019 <\/em>Audrey Riley, go-to cellist for the likes of Nick Cave, The Smiths, The Cure, The Go-Betweens (to name but a few) provides luscious string arrangements on many of the tracks here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Landline,\u2019 perhaps rather perversely inspired by the first line of Drake\u2019s mega-hit, \u2018Hotline Bling,\u2019 (\u201cYou used to call me on your cellphone\u2026\u201d), pictures a lost love as a voice on a forgotten, dusty answering machine : \u201cyour ghost on a tape, in a drawer at the back\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n