With an experimental sound that would return on 4ever Delayed, Locust Valley is a significantly better song than many which made it onto Know Your Enemy. It’s easily one of their best rock songs of the period, with emotive melodies, a fantastic chorus, and swirling broken up riffs which are pulled away, sucked up, and spat out again in whirlpool of distorted noise. There’s also an excellent guitar solo, suitably strange and flying all over the place, but one which builds and crackles and leads expertly up to the final chorus in a glorious peak. The outro also feels fresh and interesting rather than a simple re-tread or fade out.
Mishead Lyrics: Elusive and de-smiled
2: Art correspondent school behind
3: Long item blues
4: Too shy to portrait stand
5: I feel I want some company name
6: My first attempt’s an empty fail
Actual Lyrics: Elusive and dismantled
2: Our colours form the truth behind… or A correspondence school behind – no-one seems to know
3: Long Island Blues
4: The shattered portrait’s frame
5: I feel the words and Company names
6: Of his attempts at empty fame
The Spac Hole 