Walls – Raw Umber / Twilight // Song Of The Day #332

I’ve developed a bit of an addiction to daytime Radio One. It is, for the most part, unremittingly awful. They just played that new Marina and the cocking Diamonds track, for example. Diabolical.

What I enjoy about it, though, is the easy, lazy emotion it provides. Most of the songs on the A and B lists are designed specifically to elicit certain feelings without you actually having to think, and sometimes that’s exactly what is required between the day’s first and second cups of coffee. It’s like an IV drip full of all the basic human characteristics, distilled down to their absolute essences and sweetened with a bit of aspartame.

In their own inimitable way, Walls are also very good at channeling that straight-to-the-gut emotion. Yes, the edges are fuzzed to the point of near-abstraction, but at their heart, tracks like ‘Raw Umber/Twilight’ are all about simple, familiar, wide-eyed basslines of the sort that form the foundation of most of your favourite chart botherers. Scott Mills is unlikely to play it, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less of a pop song.

‘Raw Umber/Twilight’ is taken from Walls forthcoming second album, Coracle, out 26 September on Kompakt.

Walls – Raw Umber/Twilight by The Line Of Best Fit