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Lazarus and The Plane Crash: Horseplay
by Stephen Trousse
September 2011
 

Songs for swinging lycanthropes from Clerkenwell’s Cole Porter
Stephen Coates – aka The Real Tuesday Weld – is generally known for his artful rewiring of antique swing 78′s, so the opening track of his soundtrack to Glen Duncan’s novel, a blood-curdling, throat-shedding howlin’ wolfman blues, is something of a departure. Elsewhere “Love Lust Money”, “The Hunt” and “Tear Us Apart” propose a flappertronic marriage between 1920′s darling Anita Loos and the Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennanant. But the best things may be the most familiar: the wolfy waltzes “I Always Kill The Things I Love” and “The Ghosts”, and the dark side of the croon “Save Me”, featuring the sublime Pinkie Maclure.