Their overblown debut, Ling (Giant/Mechanic), mixes fusiony fretless bass playing (by Salls), prog rock precision, effects-heavy guitar, and pristine vocal harmonies with simpy melodies and wretched lyrics.

A maximum of 80 m.p.h. was quickly reached on the 1 in 264 down through Three Bridges and at this pace the riding was exemplary.

[…] he did not stop to think, but hastened to make the ‘passes’ as the technical phrase styles certain unmeaning motions of the hands and arms.

She but brooded at first in her corner of the carriage: it was like burying her exposed face, a face too helplessly exposed, in the cool lap of the common indifference, of the dispeopled streets, of the closed shops and darkened houses seen through the window of the brougham, a world mercifully unconscious and unreproachful.