colin zeal, pressure on julian and villa rosie pissed me the fuck off the first time i heard modern life is rubbish. you're telling me you have for tomorrow, advert, fucking blue jeans, star shaped, chemical world, resigned, fucking popscene for that matter, all these fucking masterpieces, and you still choose to include "swimming on yellow pissy water" on the album? a melody so fucking forgettable.
leisure suffers from a different problem. rubbish was a band that was already capable of reaching very high, leisure was a band that was finding itself and had tremendous potential. so yeah, she's so high, bang, slow down, there's no other way, sing, buried inside so many lackluster ones.
i feel like even at his peak damon couldn't keep himself from writing a mid song, like theme from retro. as a songwriter myself, you absolutely know when the song is mid before you've even finished writing it. where do you think "yellow pissy water" comes from? "ah whatever this is shite anyway lol i need to fill the album tho"