Lightships

Ah, 'Solo projects'; the industry's shorthand cliché which performers use when they're desperately trying to escape their host organism - a term that, on many occasions, is the immediate precursor to 'Musical differences'. Lightships is just such a vehicle for Gerard Love, one part of the universally adored Teenage Fanclub and, naturally, you might assume that escaping some of their artistic constraints may have been one of the objectives upper most in his mind. However, on that basis, the conclusion drawn from listening to Electric Cables is that you'd be wrong. Dead wrong.

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