SOTD #57 // My Sad Captains: 'You Talk All Night'

Long overdue an appearance on TLOBF, My Sad Captains have been on our radar since February last year but we’ve never gotten round to featuring them. A quick catchup? Well, they released their debut album Here and Elsewhere back in June via Stolen Recordings (home to Bo Ningen, Let’s Wrestle and Tap Tap amongst others), it dipped completely (and criminally) under the radar thus never receiving the attention or fanfare it truly deserved. Founding member Cathy went on to join Fanfarlo and become a pop star whilst the rest of ‘Captains plodded along playing the odd show, and quite possibly drinking a fair amount of tea. Probably.

Now, it’s fair to say that over the past few years I haven’t had a lot of time for the music that has come out of the United Kingdom. I could probably only name ten, maybe twenty bands out of hundreds that I truly love and would fight my corner for. My Sad Captains are one of those bands. I knew when I first heard them 12 or so months ago that they had something special. For a start, they sound a bit like American Analog Set (another amazingly under-rated band) but filtered through a typically English sense of melancholia. They know how to write a good, solid pop song – but they don’t shove it in your face with OTT production methods and *punchy* choruses. The songs just glide softly, hang around for a bit making you all wistful then ping(!) – vanish. It’s only a few hours later that you find yourself singing random melodies and lyrics. The mark of a great pop song is surely waking up in the middle of the night with it lodged in your head for no apparent reason, right?

So here you are, long overdue but better late than never: My Sad Captains, with their new single (and video) “You Talk All Night”. Do yourselves a favour and pick up a copy of the album.

My Sad Captains: “You Talk All Night”

http://vimeo.com/11472437