Dark Looks

Once upon a time, a long long time ago, one of the ways you could convince yourself that, despite every indicator to the contrary, you had some remaining spark of 'cool', was to read - and better to be seen and known to read - now-defunct music magazine Select . (Look at that list of attitudinising contributors!) And every self-respecting teen motorist had the chance to double down on my - I mean 'their' - Selectiveness by playing on their car stereo the cover cassette of the moment. They didn't always feel it at the time, but in hindsight these were seriously various.  The cassette that most regularly did this work in my own personal highly integrated automobile sound system was Secret Tracks 2 , the cover cassette from Select May 1994 . And what a tour it was - introducing us at the same time to Saint Etienne, Oasis and Echobelly. But most of all for me, most lastingly of all, was 'The Key', from Kristin Hersh's Strings.   Hersh had happened to the U