The Comedy of Errors: Circus Lupus - Straight Through the Heart (2 May 1992)

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If Peel was playing tracks from your album on successive nights then you had to be doing something right.  Built around a riff which sounds like the third cousin once removed of My Bloody Valentine’s You Made Me Realise, the mentions of “ruby red lips...dark eyes” suggest that, happily, it’s only Cupid’s arrows that are penetrating the surface here.  But in the world of Circus Lupus, joy is not something to be enjoyed at face value and the track ends with dark murmurings that conflate this woman with “temptation”.  Vocalist, Chris Thomson puts himself through hell whenever he sings - so much so that the listener implores him to yield to temptation and enjoy himself, but unfortunately, the tangled emotions and web of feelings that this song hints at suggests the happy couple will ultimately wind up in the state from the previous evening’s Circus Lupus gem, Pacifier.

Video courtesy of Circus Lupus - Topic (so make the most of it in case it gets wiped off).