Comet Gain: Broken Record Prayers
Label: What's Your Rupture
Broken Record Prayers, a collection of singles and rarities from the longstanding British pop group Comet Gain, opens with “Jack Nance Hair,” which boasts multiple spoken testimonials over its four-minutes. “We have torn ideals,” the most resonant of them states, and that tension—between idealism and realism, between rigorous theory and blissful pop—suffuses the nineteen songs that follow, ranging from the gently played chords of “You Can Hide Your Love Forever” to the far more uptempo “Orwell Library Dance.” What they all have in common is an unflagging pop sensibility: limitless energy aided by hooks and quirks that stay buried in your mind. (Toby)
