This unnecessarily long tune from Alex Watts & The Foreign Tongue features a flurry of horns by the Melbourne Ska Orchestra and a hugely drawn-out finale. Forming some sort of ‘song cycle’ with their previous single, This Haunting, Warned is about a guy drunkenly serenading a prostitute. Like the previous single, the story of the song is completely impenetrable without the press notes. And even when they tell you what it’s about, the lyrics don’t seem to mean much of anything. A lot of thought has gone into this work, judging by the press notes, but without much effect.
Alex Watts & The Foreign Tongue : Warned
