Review by: Schuyler L.
Album assigned by: Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
Sir Harry Lauder is a really happy sorta guy. He's good at drinking whiskey and loves to wax nostalgic about Scotch lassies and purple heather (“more like ‘PUURRPLLEe HAAAAZZZZzzzee,’ am I right now, dads?”) and has a really exquisite talent for rolling his "r's"... I do wonder, how did he earn his knightship? ? ? (insert more suggestive question marks here).
Regardless of this totally needless query posited to occupy typespace, I must say that to his credit, Lauder only tends to be at the very forefront of the record's sound about 80% of the time, with another 10% consisting of somewhat forced, explosive laughter... which is all right, really, because that reminds me a bit of the musical accompaniment... somewhat forced!
I am not going to review this one track-by-track, nor even mention a single track at all. And there's really no point to it, with something as self-apparent as this record, which is one of a slowly growing pool of centenarians.
You see, the problem is that Sir Harry Lauder is to subtle abstraction as marble is to concrete.
And by that, I do also mean that he's really white.
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This is the kind of music you play after your luck has taken a bad turn. Perhaps you’ve lost your job, or your wife has left you because of your fantasy sports addiction, or maybe you lost one of your brand new running sneakers in the escalator at work, because you just happened put your foot on the side of it, though you damn well know you shouldn't do that, fucking asshole.
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Because no matter what happens, you can still listen to Roaming in the Gloaming and say “Wow, how awesome it is that possibly on this very day, a hundred-and-something years ago, Sir Harry Lauder was totally getting off in Scotland!”
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