If you can get a copy ... get one. Try the Tired and Lonesome website. If you can’t get one, KID CARPET's website links to a download version and to a better than perfect animated video.
Quite simply this is marvelous stuff. A watertight tune with eccentrically beautiful offbeat lyrics and a perkily miserably vocal that should already have been a top ten hit. Companion tracks "Little Atomic Bomb" and "Bristol Carpet Factory" combine georealpolitik with regional carpet retailing in the direct and tasteful way – mash 'em up with a fork and tip on the custard.
Kid Carpet is from Bristol, obviously. He seems to like bright plastic things and have a penchant for Tchaikovsky played on musical boxes. It sounds good, but I wouldn’t necessarily endorse Bristol Carpets on the strength of his 47 second soundtrack. "Come in and meet the boys" … indeed.
It's a treat. www.kidcarpet.co.uk
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