Review of The Outdoor Type
From NME 1997
Evan Dando, more or less the coolest man in this or any other universe, returns, having floundered with the glorious "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You", and sings what's left of his kidneys off, explaining the horrors of physical exercise. Gaz Reef take note! Oh, alright, so he didn't actually write the thing - this being the work of close friend Tom Morgan of Smudge - but the way he delivers in that near-comotose drawl makes it quite extraordinarily fine. And a "radio hit" at least. Altogether now: "I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend/what if something's on TV and it's never shown again..."