Their latest album disappointed me a lot.
It's got all of what Dan Treacy thought people expected from him, but it lacks what was to be found in his previous work : spontaneity.
He drops names here and there just the way he did but this time it ain't witty.
To be fair, he hadn't played for quite a while, had even sold his guitar for heroin.
I got into his music via "Yes, Darling" and started tracking his releases - which was hard. I even went to London to chase some records. Then Fire Records (a label he now despises) reissued his work.
I'd recommend "Yes, Darling", "They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles", "The Painted Word" (Paradise Estate & Back To Vietnam are really dark) and "Closer to God".
German label Little Teddy Recordings released another compilation of the stuff he did after Jowe Head's departure, called "Fashion Conscious". I liked it a lot.
It had covers from the Kinks, Joe Meek, Daniel Johnston, the Raincoats, Syd Barrett, Jacques Brel.
He wrote really moving lyrics.
http://www.popfloor.com/tvps/home.html
Try this band, I was glad to see a thread about them.