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Features Disc of the day
Earl Brutus
Larky
(Fruition, 1999)
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
Self-declared "pub talk made real", Earl Brutus released just two albums and nine singles of oppositional, inflamed art-rock before their recording existence came to its end in 1999. Their final venting of spleen came via this three-tracker, whose sleeve featured an illustration of the band enjoying a back garden barbecue while an adjoining semi burns down. Up first, withering glam chugger Larky sees three-years-gone vocalist Nick Sanderson sarkily stitching together phrases from Bruce Forsyth, the National Lottery and Damien Hirst's comedic superband Fat Les, among others - "Nice to see you to see you nice, It could be you/ Know what I mean? Hi-de-hi, vindaloo" - before the song immerses the listener in a cold bath of sobriety with the urgent reminder that "there are no times like these ones". It has the mid-afternoon, walls-closing-in feel of a day where nothing has been achieved, and this disquieting ambience continues on the urgent electro rock of Teenage Opera, where combing your hair becomes a way of being "a part of the action". But the real Barrett home-black mass moment of hilarity and horror comes with England Sandwich, where the drums from Iggy Pop's Nightclubbing, discordant synth pulses and the gloopy electronic jingles off a pub fruit machine meet sampled voices of impressive banality. These include TV ads, daytime quiz shows and even an elderly ex-public schoolboy casually remembering giving some oik a thrashing. Throughout, speaking clock voice Brian Cobby intones that, "at the third stroke the time sponsored by Accurist will be three forty four and twenty seconds..." This does not change. For England Sandwich, it will always be three forty four and twenty seconds - making it a suitably out-of-time end point for this omni-oxymoronic, unforgettable group.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
Further Listening
Earl Brutus – Tonight You Are The Special One (Fruition/Island, 1998)
The Fall – Shift-Work (Phonogram, 1991)
John Cooper Clarke – Disguise In Love (CBS, 1978)
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
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Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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