If you play this loudly, I wonder what the odds are that someone passing by hears the opening thud of the drums and thinks it’s going to lead into In the Morning by The Coral? And certainly, the hard driving acoustics that form the basis of Just Comes Out That Way point ahead to the soft/hard sound that seemed to dominate British rock music in the early part of the 21st Century. But the Lemonheads-like title and especially the abrasive guitars that come into shake up things up end up carbon-dating this to early 90s American-alt rock.
The band do most of the heavy lifting in this miniature of a relationship reaching a tipping point given that the turmoil is reflected more through those moments of abrasiveness than it is through the vocals which are equally pushed to the edge but sound ready to give out at any moment. Circus Lupus do a better job than Bugjuice of marrying musical and vocal angst at the point where relationships start to curdle but no matter though. Peel described this track as his then favourite example of what he called “Swirling music...the sound of two records playing at once.” And he’s right. This is no world-beater, but it is a great example of the classic musical oxymoron: a tuneful racket.
Video courtesy of John Peel (Taken from Peel’s Radio 1 show broadcast on 14 November 1992)
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