Leave (If You Want To) is the second song to appear here from My Friend the Chocolate Cake‘ (MFTCC)‘s fourth studio album – Curious. In the article of the previous song, It’s All in the Way from the same album I wrote:
‘A few weeks after seeing David Bridie and Archie Roach in a concert in Melbourne we received in the mail the CD ‘Curious‘ (see image inset) from Bridie and his band ‘My Friend the Chocolate Cake‘as a thank you gift for seeing him concert. Do you believe that? Well, it’s true. And I still have the CD. I played that thing to death. Do you know why? Not because it was a gift; as lovely as that was to receive, but because it contains some of the best eclectic music I have ever heard.’
Leave (If You Want To) encapsulates what I like so much about MFTCC. It’s subtle, unassuming but has this alluring depth of intimacy and transcendence. The breezy cocktail bar sound which the instrumentals conjure in the opening parts convert to something more atmospheric ‘Chamber – pop’ and with swagger as the song develops and then it repeats the process. I find it educates my ears in a way that few other songs do. The whole album is like that. I love it; like I do almost everything I’ve heard from them.
If you want to leave just walk away
I’m tired of the uneasiness everyday
We wouldn’t have it any other way
We wouldn’t have it any other way
There are mostly lies in times of war
our battle’s the same stupid one as before
how bout we say we’ll take this crap no more
Let’s take this crap no more
For I’m gone ba da de da da de da
So if you want to leave just walk away
I fall for indecisiveness everyday
I wouldn’t have it any other way
i wouldn’t have it any other way
David Bridie who founded My Friend the Chocolate Cake has featured so much here. You can find so much more about him and his group in my previous articles. In 2000, My Friend the Chocolate Cake’s contract with Mushroom Records ended and they decided to represent themselves independently. Gathering in 2002 the group released their fourth studio album, Curious, in May of that year, via Capitol Records. It peaked at No. 14 on the ARIA Australasian Artists Albums chart.
References:
1. My Friend the Chocolate Cake – Wikipedia
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”- Michel Legrand
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I loved your selection this post. Enya. She brings back fond memories. In the 90s I listened to her a lot. So soothing, her voice.
The video you included wasn’t available for me, so I found another one on YouTube. I like their music too, and love the album cover for ‘Curious’.
I’m glad you were so tenacious to end up finding it. That’s cool you did that. This album, is so good and stupendously underrated in Australian music. I’m so glad you like it. I agree the album cover is excellent.