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Features Disc of the day
Earl Brutus
Your Majesty… We Are Here
(Deceptive, 1996)
Shouting electro-rock paradoxes say: it's you and Earl Brutus against the world!
Sometimes groups can lead to all manner of brain-heating conjecture. Like - the historian Geoffrey Of Monmouth said the first King of Britain was Brutus, and he slew the giants Gog and Magog. Earl Brutus, pub-marinated elders active throughout the Britpop bender, used to drink in the New Gog in Canning Town. Fully engage with Your Majesty...'s wide-eyed, cerebral/stupid prog-glam with synths, though, and heightened, possibly drunken significance becomes the norm. Sticking its head through the telly screen immediately is livid opener Navyhead, wherein a Bowie fan licensee comes out with lines like, I'm three times the woman you take to bed, ginger-man," as School's Out guitars rise and fall like the raging main. Elsewhere, On Me Not In Me brings synth mournfulness, fear of solitude and baroque rock freakout, while the mighty Life's Too Long conflates mortality and Artex (other mundane song conceits include reversible jackets, Harvester restaurants, Barrett houses and the M25). There is also melancholy in the careering chaos, as when Blind Date ends with a Kraftwerk-robot voice simply saying the word "England". What does it all mean? The blank pages inside this CD's booklet aren't giving anything away. Maybe it's something to do with the forcible conciliation of opposites. But what is certain is that the emanations of Earl Brutus continue to confound and amaze. And two years on from his untimely passing, remember their frontman Nick Sanderson.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 08/06/2010
Further Listening
Earl Brutus – Tonight You Are The Special One (Universal, 1998)
Jock Scot & The Nectarine No.9 – My Personal Culloden (Postcard, 1997)
Ten Benson - Hiss (Must Destroy, 2000)
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