In my opinion, there is 75% of a wonderful song in Warm/Crawl. If it had ended at the 3 minute mark, I’d have gone as far as calling it one of the best guitar tracks that Peel played in 1992. The fusion of Sarah Shannon’s vocal and the high guitar line, which almost doubles as a second vocal is so beautifully arranged, it strikes me as one of those instances that demonstrates exactly what a guitar is for.
Unfortunately, the track goes on for a further minute and the atmospherics of the first three-quarters of the track are replaced with a generic rock thrashabout in which Velocity Girl appear to have lifted a bit from the end title music of Blackadder the Third. This may have been the band trying to subvert their melodic reputation by including some of the louder/hardcore elements of their live shows, as touched upon in this interview. I suspect though that Warm/Crawl came about by bringing together two separate fragments of songs; Shannon’s ethereal vocal and the blistering guitars reflecting the warmth of a dozen suns and the rockout in the last minute sounding like a crawl in the dirt.
Video courtesy of manicdogbert1
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