Blog - Tag: Stephen Coates

Pitchfork Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | The Return of The Clerkenwell Kid

13 Sep 2005 - 00:00
The Return of The Clerkenwell Kid

“Return revisits a baker's dozen of tracks from the Weld's 2001 debut, Where Psyche Meets Cupid, albeit with fresh recordings and a smattering of, ahem, real new material. Also recurring is Coates' self-described "antique beat" style, which in itself mingles the long-ago with the recent: Twenties and '30s music-hall and Tin Pan Alley (via "When I'm Sixty-Four", Village Green-preserving Kinks, or tourmate/fan Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields) with copious sampling and light, pastoral electronics of the Saint Etienne school.

Pitchfork Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | I, Lucifer

20 Apr 2004 - 00:00
I' Lucifer by The Real Tuesday Weld

With I, Lucifer, Coates, under nom-de-chanson (The Real) Tuesday Weld, draws the listener deep into a scratchy, sepia-toned fantasy that first suggests the gap between boozy, swinging ragtime, sophisticated lounge poetics, and innovative beat technique, then bridges it in one swooning swoop.

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