You Animals - What A Shame, Lorraine

Release Info

You Animals' first single for This Is Fake DIY Records is a game of two halves, both taken from debut album, 'Crimes, Creeps & Thrills'.



'What A Shame, Lorraine' combines a nagging keyboard hook, a Marr-esque guitar pattern, some big 'Bohemian Rhapsody' harmonies and a (true) teenage tale of being led astray for three years by a mystical girl who for some unfathomable reason takes a shine to you, grants you both a musical and seedy sexual awakening, and then ends up dead. Charming.



Flip side 'Halfway to Heartbreak' is an infectious three-minute blast of regret. It's about messing up that one relationship you've never given a shit about and glimpses of a future akin to the 'bad' 1985 in Back to the Future. It's not all doom and gloom, though; a huge shout-along chorus, some super-sharp guitars, dash of gang vocals, a few handclaps and a touch of cowbell come on like an aural ray of sunshine and you're dreaming of hoverboards once again.