We got up yesterday and decided we needed to see the sea, walk on a beach, feel the wind coming onto the coast. A quick check of the weather website and North Wales looked the best bet. There's nothing quite like a British seaside resort out of season and Llandudno has everything you want- the faded glamour of hotels built for tourists before the foreign package holiday took off, a long promenade, palm trees, a pier, The Great Orme, tearooms and all only an hour and a half away. It was windy which blew some of the cobwebs away and the sun even came out for a while. It's difficult because these are exactly the kind of days out we did with Isaac and the three of us all felt him missing at different times but it did us good to get out here and away for a few hours. Although I always think of myself as a city person the coast and the sea have a really strong pull and just being near them does a lot of good.
This song came out at the end of November. I missed it (understandably) and it missed being in my end of year list but it's a beautiful way to spend eight minutes, a pulsing, electronic cosmic trip with a blissed out vocal, soaring synths and eventually sitars and backwards guitars. Dealer is at some kind of intersection of disco, Balearica and psychedelia with Giorgio Moroder's influence writ large. Lovely false ending too and reprise too.
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I love a British resort out of season too. Its not a resort as such but we've been just outside Whitstable in Kent for the last couple of days on a post Xmas/pre New Year's Eve camper van trip and the town out of season thing definitely applies. Hope you're all coping. It's a natural time for reflection anyway this week and what you've all been through must feel like it's still overwhelming.
I agree about out of season seaside towns. Maybe because my mum and dad always took me on holiday out of season, and maybe because I can't do with crowds. Keep on keeping on.
I'd like to got o Whitstable Nick. We were in Kent about 10 years ago but on the south Kent coast, Romney Marshes.
I completely understand being a city boy and being drawn to the beach. Beach vacations have always been the best for fully recharging my mind, body and even soul.
In the midst of spending three nights in a little cottage on the Washington Coast. Nothing like a long walk on the beach in winter. Hope you can find a little joy too, Adam.
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