Take Fountain by Wedding Present

Take Fountain was never meant to be a Wedding Present album. David Gedge started it as the fourth record by his other band, Cinerama, but when his relationship with Cinerama co-founder Sally Murrell fell apart, the songs turned darker and he decided they belonged under the old name. So in February 2005 the Wedding Present were back with their first album since Saturnalia in 1996, out on Scopitones in the UK and Manifesto in the US.

Steve Fisk produced and engineered it in mid-2004 at studios in Shoreline and Seattle, Washington, and at Electrical Audio in Chicago, with Gedge and guitarist Simon Cleave pitching in on production. The breakup hangs over everything, and the band answers it with the racket the Leeds faithful remember: guitars jangling and grinding at once, Gedge's voice raw and plainspoken. "Interstate 5" is the song that turned up on a countdown.

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