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Features Disc of the day
Denim
Denim On Ice
(Echo, 1996)
Pleasing confusion from indie rock's foremost Eeyore/ Warhol hybrid.
"You've heard songs about pub rock, oral sex and junkies," emotes solitary man Lawrence over frosty orch-synth whooshes on this album's last song. Pardon? But he isn't bluffing; The Great Pub Rock Revival, Grandad's False Teeth and Glue And Smack, are, respectively, about those very same aberrant subjects. Tough to carry off such tunes if you were Richard Ashcroft, for example. But being ex-Felt chief Lawrence, they amount to subtly blended flavours of transgression, insight and ridiculousness that make for an oddly affecting album of barbed jokes, vertiginous despair, and, yes, romance. Revisiting the glam-bovver template of 1992's Back In Denim with extra synthesizers and programmed drums, at 18 tracks there are possibly too many songs here, though standouts include mockney-mocking pub piano grotesque Job Centre, juvenile punk memoir Jane Suck Died In '77 and the rubbery Brumburger, with its dark vacuities and references to abortion. Through it all Denim's "Brummie Lou Reed" singer, who once said, "Denim is really about saying 'no' to everything", sounds completely sincere. Curious to think that some people, not least his record label, thought that he was about to sell some records now that Britpop was here. Instead he would remain the connoisseur's choice, and retired to the fringes where he made music like this, and where a strange myth continues to grow.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 16/03/2009
Further Listening
Denim – Back In Denim (Boy’s Own, 1992)
Go Kart Mozart– Instant Wigwam And Igloo Mixture (Cherry Red, 2000)
Lou Reed – The Blue Mask (RCA, 1982)
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And then Denim signed with EMI & delivered 'Novelty Rock'. Quite what they must have thought when they heard 'The New Potatoes' is beyond me ...
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