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Named for an immersive widescreen film projection system that predated IMAX, Cinerama were founded by David Gedge after he put The Wedding Present on sabbatical following a 1997 tour.

Centered lyrically around Gedge's regular themes of courtship, romance, love, lust, and infidelity, Cinerama also indulged Gedge's love of film music from John Barry to blaxploitation, as well as the classic songwriting of Bacharach/David and the less dramatic sides of Scott Walker -- a comfy spot between twee and Tindersticks, certainly more powerful and gutsy than the former and not as dark and solemn as the latter.