The Delgados
The Great Eastern
Label:  Beggars Banquet 
Date:  5/9/2000
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Indie
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 The Past That Suits You Best    
      2.  
      		 Accused of Stealing    
      3.  
      		 American Trilogy    
      4.  
      		 Reasons for Silence    
      5.  
      		 Thirteen Gliding Principles    
      6.  
      		 No Danger    
      7.  
      		 Aye Today    
      8.  
      		 Witness    
      9.  
      		 Knowing When to Run    
      10.  
      		 Make Your Move    
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      The Delgados are precisely what you'd expect from a Scottish band named after Spanish cycling champion Pedro Delgado: brilliant, mercurial, fiercely independent, and more than a bit eccentric. On the quartet's third album, The Great Eastern, they explore symphonic pop in a glorious sweep of sound that recalls the Flaming Lips or Lambchop more than Scottish twee-pop peers Belle & Sebastian. Co-leaders Emma Pollock and Alun Woodward neatly balance each other. She has the better voice and prettier melodies to sing; his vocal warts offer a character-actor charm all their own. Together, they deliver an album full of graceful brushstrokes and slightly (but delightfully) askew ambition. --Keith Moerer