Bluebottle Kiss “Everything Begins and Ends at Exactly the Right Time”
From Come Across (2003).
“You and your brothers are such hapless lovers,
Like Esau and Jacob, like King Saul and David.
Sickly caresses, fingers made of feathers
Wishbones for your backbones…
Like lambs to the slaughter.”My obsession with this song was sparked the moment I first heard it and continues unabated five years later. Maybe it’s because I was knee-deep in Buffalo Tom nostalgia at the time, or because I had just read Nick Cave’s And the Ass Saw the Angel. In any case, my response was primitive. This is music boiled down to a tough rock core, gilded at the edges with gothic americana, brimming with imagery that hits me square in the gut, and one of the most emotional guitar solos to enter these ears. I’m not a guitar solo kinda girl, generally speaking - if you’re going to try and impress with technical flash (why, yes, your fingers do move fast, how nice), I’ve got some cookbooks I’d rather be alphabetizing. But if my entire body rises and falls with each swell, if I have to close my eyes and stop whatever I am doing to just listen… well then.
Bluebottle Kiss is a guitar-based, indie rock band from Sydney, Australia. Formed in the mid 90s, [the band] took their influences from the late ‘80’s American indie scene which included artists such as Sonic Youth and the Afghan Whigs, singer-songwriters of the ‘70’s such as Neil Young and Van Morrison as well as the very creative Australian independent scene of the same period with artists such as The Church and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. (Wikipedia)
Come Across, Australian quartet Bluebottle Kiss’ fifth full-length, and second to be released in the U.S., delivers an intense, narrative-driven, swinging affair and it has already received comparisons to such classic Australian rock albums as the Triffid’s Born Sandy Devotional or Nick Cave’s The Boatman’s Call. (In Music We Trust)
The first impression is that Bluebottle Kiss can and will brave any meteorological or emotional disturbance and conquer it with grace… “Everything Begins and Ends at Exactly the Right Time” follows suit, but in a succession of increased stakes and chances: foot stomps and handclaps beget the full band sweep, which then begets the guitar assault that hollers like Neil Young’s darkest fantasies come to life. “I told you from the beginning / Now ain’t the time for harvesting / It’s the time for digging,” Jamie Hutchings (the band’s singer and songwriter) declares, and you agree: yes yes yes, take that guitar and dig yourself to other side of the earth! (PopMatters)
Spearheaded by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jamie Hutchings, the band has a knack for creating dramatic arcs and swelling climaxes. “Everything Begins and Ends at Exactly the Right Time” pits sustained organ tones against soaring electric guitar, buoying Hutchings shouted vocals, which are rife with vivid Old Testament references. (Tiny Mix Tapes)
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