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David Tattersall
Happy For A While Where It’s At Is Where You Are (LP plus CD)

Article written by Ged M - May 11, 2010

David Tattersall: Happy For A While

When we interviewed David Tattersall two years ago, in May 2008, the Wave Pictures had already released two official albums and six CD-Rs. The prolific streak has continued with another Wave Pictures studio and live album plus a stream of singles, and May 2010 finds the first album under Tattersall’s own name (and with dramatic hawk portrait on the cover painted by his mum).

Recorded in Berlin, it’s doesn’t sound like the Wave Pictures. There’s a soupçon of Springsteen but the main influence is Herman Düne, drawing on Tattersall’s earlier collaboration with Stanley Brinks (the artist formerly known as André Herman Düne). The songs are romantic, intimate and slightly bittersweet, with some lovely melodic choruses (‘Happy for A While’, jointly written with Stanley Brinks stands out in this respect). But in some ways it feels like a Wave Pictures set up as his collaborators are anything but backing players: Stan lends wibbling clarinet and skronky saxophone to the slinky ‘The Typewriter Ribbon’, and his mournful clarinet tones back up the languid, folky vocals of Clemence Freschard on ‘I Saw Your Hair Between The Trees’. But ‘Moorhens’ feels like pure Tattersall; growing up in Leicestershire, he’s always referenced the country and the song is gorgeous pastoral pop, musing Betjeman-like on "how the waters hold the sunlight in a million little pearls of gold".

He’s compared to Edwin Collins, the Go-Betweens and even Morrissey but his understated romantic pop and poetic lyrics put him slightly outside even that disaffected circle, making lovely, lonely outsider pop that would be perfectly complemented by dark nights, red wine and contemplation of long journeys homewards.

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