I owe this one to an ex girlfriend who raved about it many years ago after Lauren Laverne played it on her XFM Breakfast Show (before the Alex Zane salad days of commercial indie radio), and she was bloody right. It's an absolute cracker. Oddly distinct from the rest of Rogue Wave's idiosyncratic back catalogue, its soaring, cloud-bursting guitars are up there with the Roses' Ten Storey Love Song, which it always reminds me of - a kind of Californian cousin with a shimmery sun-baked glow. God only knows what the chorus, "You could never publish my love", actually means - is she planning some Mills and Boon bonk-a-thon novel? Is his love so unremittingly perverted it could never be put into print? Who knows. A mysterious message from a mysterious band but this is pretty much the sound of falling in love for the first time, times ten. A nice keepsake from an otherwise wonky relationship.
Publish My Love by Rogue Wave - listen on Spotify here.
From: Descended Like Vultures (2005)
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