Single review: Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – So Long Good Night
The latest offering from Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, and the second single to be taken from their superbly dark Blood & Fire album, ‘So Long Good Night’ sees the dark overlords of garage rock delivering the musical equivalent of a Dear John letter, but don’t be fooled into think they’ve gone soft us. No! While ‘So Long Good Night’ is probably as close to opening their hearts as EMBD will ever get, they do so in their own inimitable way. From the minute Guy McKnight opens ‘So Long Good Night’ with the immortal lines ‘The stars are shining down upon my sorry head/and in the morning I will be gone/and I’ll leave you here for dead’ to the equally grim closing lines of ‘I will be gone/so long/so say goodbye’ you find thanking god that it’s not you he’s leaving in a decidedly unamiable way. ‘So Long Good Night’ sounds like the band summoning the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Be afraid! 4/5
Mark Cousens
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