Happy Trails to you

The thing with releasing an album near the start of the year is that, no matter how breathtaking it is, people will have come over all short-memoryish by the time the end-of-year laurels are being perched on rock-genius heads. To attempt to fix that, we've gone a-nosing into our archives this week and emerged dusty but triumphant with an interview with And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - because their second album Source Tags & Codes (released in February of '02) is absolutely, as we used to write on our notebooks in high babies, 2 Good 2 B 4 Got 10.

Witness (so to speak) Jason Reece & Neil Busch describing rough riding through Witnness '01 on dodgy hired gear ("There were moments that I thought were beautiful, and there were moments where I thought, 'Oh man, I can't believe people tolerate this'")... going to see Dirty Three the night before (they've exquisite taste, unsurprisingly)... dealing with the ravages of planet-traipsing from festival to festival... musically "making the jump" from the hothouse dynamo that is their legendary club-show to a more festival-ish version of themselves... namechecking the then-unknown White Stripes as among their Witnness faves (there's that good taste again)... and planning to get Bono and Griff out of Super Furry Animals in a musical headlock/ peace-and-love celebrity smooch. Aw, bless!

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