Honey Tongue 'Let's Sail Away' (Playtime Records, 1992)

Honey Tongue was seemingly a one-off collaboration between Josephine Wiggs (ex-Perfect Disaster and bassist in the Breeders) and Jon Mattock (drummer with Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized). 'Let's Sail Away' is the final, widescreen closing track from an album - 'Nude Nudes' - that seems to have been overlooked massively.

'Nude Nudes' was the soundtrack to my lazy summer of 1992 and The Breeders' hazy, sparse but muscularly sexy debut album was fresh in my mind, leading me to investigate this when it came out. While the Honey Tongue record doesn't have the amped-up, electric guitar attack of the Breeders' 'Pod', it does have a poise and smouldering atmosphere to match it.

It's beautifully observed songs of love, lust and longing were perfectly served by straightforward, unshowy drums, strident base and interweaving layers of acoustic guitar. Wiggs' sings her vignettes in an unsettlingly controlled tone and perhaps the opening track 'Driver' would been a more obvious choice.

'Let's Sail Away' though is a cinematic tale of longing to be cast adrift with your significant other, the tracking building then breaking down then building again over lovely clean guitar lines and Wiggs' sonorous vocals.

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Let's Sail Away (mp3)