Comet Gain are a wonderful band from the same underground British pop scene that brought you Huggy Bear, Clinic, Cornershop, Belle and Sebastian, etc. David Feck (the songwriter/frontman/only permanent member) is a cinematic genius trapped in the body of a pop songwriter.
Inspired in equal parts by The Go-Betweens, Godard, Irma Thomas, dance parties, Dexy's Midnight Runners, falling in love, mod, and hootenannies Comet Gain are the soundtrack to a life lived as an outsider.
"City Fallen Leaves" is the next chapter in Feck's world. An exploration of what happens in your 30's when you still love all the things you did in your early 20's, when music and love still mean everything but most of your
friends have settled into oblivian (either literally or metaphorically).
There are songs about burn-outs, the end of relationships, of boredom, of hope, of dreams lost and born again.
"City Fallen Leaves" features many of the same players as the last album, 2002's "Realistes": David Feck, Jon Slade (ex-Huggy Bear), Kay Ishikawa, Rachel Evans, and MJ Taylor (Morrissey).