6. The CurePornography

I will confess that I came to this album way later than I should have. I won’t tell you how much later, because I’ll out myself as an ignorant fool. But since I discovered it, it has become not only a winter period staple record, but also a great source of creative inspiration. There is a real simplicity to what they do, it is effectively between three and four chords all the time, but the way in which it’s structured and how it evolves, particularly on a record like Pornography, I hold so much reverence for that. This album taught me that I don’t need to necessarily always write a fucking chorus. It doesn’t need to blow up into this big moment; the music can grow, do what it wants to do, and come to its natural climactic point. 

I’m working on something at the moment – it will be a lifetime’s worth of work, but this album is something that I consistently go back to as I’m working on it. A lifetime favourite of mine, that I also got given on vinyl for my birthday. I was very moved!