Squeeze “What More Can I Say”
Squeeze’s new record Trixies was written well before the band existed, back when Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook were teenagers in the mid-1970s. The record, a concept album about a nightclub set in the far-off 1980s, was shelved and the band pivoted to the new wave-adjacent sound of their initial run of classic records. I can’t imagine they deliberately planned to keep a stockpile of songs written close to their prime to fully realize very deep into their career, but that’s effectively what they’ve done. The songs on Trixies aren’t quite up to the high standard of Cool for Cats, Argybargy, and East Side Story, but they’re not far off either. As it turns out,...