{"id":3204,"date":"2015-09-24T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2015-09-23T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T17:59:57","slug":"a-good-read-a-good-listen-and-a-good-drink-post-war-glamour-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2015\/09\/24\/a-good-read-a-good-listen-and-a-good-drink-post-war-glamour-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Read, a Good Listen, and a Good Drink: Post War Glamour Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s a simple yet sublime pleasure, and just thinking about it can make you feel a little calmer, a little more content. Imagine: You bring out one of the good rocks glasses (or your favorite mug or a special occasion tea cup) and pour a couple fingers of amber liquid (or something dark and strong or just some whole milk). You drop the needle on the jazz platter (or pull up a blues album on your mp3 player or dig out that mixtape from college). Ensconcing yourself in the coziest seat in the house, you crack the spine on a classic (or find your place in that sci-fi paperback or pull up a biography on your e-book reader). And then, you go away for a while. Ah, bliss.<\/p>\n

In this series, some of NTSIB’s friends share beloved albums, books and drinks to recommend or inspire.<\/i><\/p>\n

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“It’s easy to forget what defines us controls our minds.”<\/h3>\n

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There are so many great bands from Leeds, past and present, that it seems like 80% of the English city’s population must be in at least one band. So strong is the Leeds-area music scene that they can support an annual festival featuring a number of local bands – as well as national acts: the Long Division Festival<\/a> in Wakefield, just outside of Leeds, (which was able recently to meet a funding goal of \u00c2\u00a36,000 in just 9 days – and they’re still going<\/a>). I had the opportunity to attend this superior festival last September and, in addition to seeing Leeds bands like my beloved Wind-up Birds<\/a> and the now-defunct Witch Hunt<\/a>, I got to see the four beautiful people who make up Post War Glamour Girls1<\/sup> play the main stage. The same stage would, later in the evening, be occupied by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) and hometown legends The Wedding Present, and the young band were every bit as assured and commanding of the stage as the old pros. <\/p>\n

After having fallen under the spell of their last full-length album, the moody, sexy, sometimes frightening Pink Fur<\/em><\/a>, it’s a true pleasure for me to bring the band in for our beloved regular series in the run-up to the release of their second full-length offering, Feeling Strange (Parts 1 and 2)<\/em><\/a> – available officially on October 30. If you were on top of it enough to grab the limited-time free release of Part 1, which I enthused about earlier<\/a>, you know there’s still more magic to come.<\/p>\n

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