Part Two Of Best Albums Ever

Illumination by The Pastels is quite possibly a best album ever.


Here's some history for all you indiekids out there. The Pastels were the original cool band from Glasgow, and pretty much are one of the forerunners of the whole Glaswegian music scene. They were signed onto Rough Trade and Wham! Records and made a lot of sloppy-ish singles, such as the song below.



Hardcore.





Fun and twee.



The early Pastels are amazingly fun and the songs are a little bit of everything; new wave, punk, etc. I love them dearly.

The band reconfigured and soon it was just Stephen McRobbie, Aggi, and Katrina. Their sound evolved and became very pretty.



And then-

an amazing thing happened.

The Pastels released the album Illumination, and proceeded to shock the world.

Illumination is possibly the most underrated album of all time. From the first note to the last, it's completely perfect. It is a great example of a band that had evolved over time and really kicked atmospheric, pretty ass.

And look at this!! Check out the link below. Stephen McRobbie writes exactly like me! See, he even used the word "hardcore". This is how I write. (Scarily enough, I did not do this on purpose)

http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~jonathan/pastels/bluff.html

Alli, I will totally make you a copy of this album.