Track Listing
1. Tokyo Glasgow - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Stephen McRobbie)
2. Two Sunsets - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Saya/Masaharu Seki)
3. Song For a Friend - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Saya/Ueno/Stephen McRobbie/Katrina Mitchell)
4. Vivid Youth - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Gerard Love/Katrina Mitchell)
5. Yomigaeru - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Saya)
6. Modesty Piece - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Katrina Mitchell)
7. About You - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels)
8. Boats - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Stephen McRobbie/Katrina Mitchell)
9. Hikoki - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Saya)
10. Sodane - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Saya/Reiko Kudo)
11. Mou Mou Rainbow - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Saya/Ueno)
12. Start Slowly So We Sound Like a Loch - (with Tenniscoats/The Pastels, featuring Stephen McRobbie/Katrina Mitchell)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Gerard Love, Katrina Mitchell, Masaharu Seki, Reiko Kudo, Saya, Stephen McRobbie, Ueno | | Producer: | Pastels/Tenniscoats | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Recording information: Spaghetti Studio; Ca Va; Chem 19; La Chunky.
Photographer: Neil Davidson.
In a career that's been getting more and more pastoral as time moves on, the long-running (since 1982!), sporadically-recorded, highly influential Pastels have made their most pastoral sounding record yet with 2009's TWO SUNSETS. Teamed with like-minded innocents from Japan the Tenniscoats, the combined group (aided by Teenage Fanclub's Gerard Love and various friends like Bill Wells and Norman Blake) ramble through twelve songs like a group of friends sitting around in the late afternoon sunshine having the relaxed and peaceful time of the summer. Some of the tunes are fully formed pop numbers, like the truly lovely and warm Vivid Youth or their cover of the Jesus and Mary Chain's About You, some are short, almost soundtrack-y musical fragments with melodies that drift aimlessly and beautifully like leaves in the breeze. The mixing of the two styles makes for a varied album that flows from start to finish like a quiet brook through a wooded glen.
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