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title: “The Doors Have Metal Plates” (the 2006-04-21 Friday Fetch-it) date: 2006-04-21 18:53 series: the Friday Fetch-it

tags: A Certain Trigger, A to B, Acrobat, Area, Decent Days And Nights, Hounds of Love, Maxïmo Park, News and Tributes, Skip To The End, The City is Here for You to Use, the Futureheads

<p><a title="The Futureheads – Skip To The End" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads/_/Skip+To+The+End">Skip To The End</a> was on this week's Roundtable; I thought it was an odd choice of lead single from <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads">The Futureheads</a>' forthcoming album, <a title="The Futureheads - News and Tributes" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads/News+and+Tributes">News and Tributes</a> – it's slower than the typical Futureheads track, and it doesn't help that the intro sounds like <a title="The Futureheads – Decent Days And Nights" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads/_/Decent+Days+And+Nights">Decent Days And Nights</a> at half-pace.</p>
<p>Better than <a title="The Futureheads – Skip To The End" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads/_/Skip+To+The+End">Skip To The End</a>, though, is <a title="The Futureheads – Area" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads/_/Area">Area</a>, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads">The Futureheads</a>' stand-alone single released late in 2005.</p>
<p>Unlike Skip to the End, it has the pace of <a title="The Futureheads – Decent Days And Nights" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads/_/Decent+Days+And+Nights">Decent Days And Nights</a>, <a title="The Futureheads – A to B" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads/_/A+to+B">A to B</a> and indeed much of <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads">The Futureheads</a>' eponymous debut.</p>
<p>Added to this is <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads">The Futureheads</a>' trademark vocal harmony hook, à la <a title="The Futureheads – Hounds of Love" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads/_/Hounds+of+Love">Hounds of Love</a>.</p>
<p>It's like the best bits of every track on <a title="The Futureheads - The Futureheads" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads/The+Futureheads">The Futureheads</a> (apart from the weird time signature of <a title="The Futureheads – The City is Here for You to Use" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Futureheads/_/The+City+is+Here+for+You+to+Use">The City is Here for You to Use</a>) condensed into 2:45.</p>
<p>And that's another thing; like many great songs (i.e. <a title="Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Maxïmo+Park/A+Certain+Trigger">A Certain Trigger</a> bar <a title="Maxïmo Park – Acrobat" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Maxïmo+Park/_/Acrobat">Acrobat</a>) it's far shorter than it sounds, which belies the song's intricacy – it doesn't seem probable that so much song would fit into so little time. <strong>If you download one track this week, make it <a href="http://gkn.me.uk/thefridayfetchit/20060421.mp3">Area</a>.</strong></p>