28 Plastic Blue Versions of Endings Without You

28 Plastic Blue Versions of Endings Without You is the second LP by Boston band Francine. It was released on February 4th, 2003 by Q Division Records. The album's subdued and personal tone is a departure from Francine's debut album Forty on a Fall Day, which is something that lead singer and songwriter Clayton Scoble admitted to in an interview with The Boston Phoenix: I don’t think I ever cared much about break-up records before, even when I was... more

28 Plastic Blue Versions of Endings Without You is the second LP by Boston band Francine. It was released on February 4th, 2003 by Q Division Records. The album's subdued and personal tone is a departure from Francine's debut album Forty on a Fall Day, which is something that lead singer and songwriter Clayton Scoble admitted to in an interview with The Boston Phoenix: I don’t think I ever cared much about break-up records before, even when I was listening to them, I was always too much of a curmudgeon about it — I thought it was megalomaniacal to write those kinds of songs, and I used to make fun of people who wrote them. But lately I’ve been listening to things like Beck’s new album [Sea Change] — yeah, it’s pedestrian and prosaic, but it’s so plainspoken that it just killed me. The problem is that most break-up albums have a common theme running through them: someone’s feeling angry because they’ve been used. I didn’t have that. I had something worse, which is coming out of a... less