M: The Who - Who's Next
T: Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
W: David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
F: Span of Sunshine - This Must Be The Present
This Friday: Steve Koziol writes all the songs for Span of Sunshine, and our shared appreciation of the band XTC is wonderfully evident in the ones on this record. Steve can actually capture that sort of madcap atmosphere much better than I ever could (trust me, I've tried and failed numerous times). There are whimsical turns of phrase, and delightful shifts in the structures of each tune that bounce between harmony and intentional discord all at once. Fun stuff. Span of Sunshine isn't copying another band, but the soul of its influence shows - gloriously.
