https://open.spotify.com/track/76rCrPvrlLO4CyqAeaLu4o?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio

Listening to Standing In The Way of Control for the first time in years and damn, does it hold up well.

The classic Gossip album turned 10 this week. It’s lost nothing in its urgency, or groove, or accuracy. The titular smash hit is amazing, anyway, but I had almost forgotten just how great songs like “Coal to Diamonds” or “Your Mangled Heart” are. They do so much with so little.

 Later albums by the group are cool and Beth DItto’s move towards fashion is important, but if I had to pick one thing out of their oeuvre, it would be this record. Damn.

Edit: Just saw that my friends over at the Mädchenmannschaft shared a couple of Gossip videos in celebration, too.