Every other release I get to review at the moment seems to come from Canada and here's another one. This is the seventh release from a songwriter,Mathias Kom, who I've never heard of before and it's a concept album to boot.
The clue lies in the album title. Each song relates to a different literary genre including murder mystery (The Stranger), sci-fi (Two Kings) and even music biography (The Road).
Kom fronts a five-piece band who. according to their online bio, play anything from "introspective folk to hyperactive rock and roll". He sounds like Lou Reed might have done if he had swallowed a dictionary and decided to become a cabaret act.
It's all about the words maaaan with plenty of knowing references to the fact that he is happily out of synch with the modern age.
The record appears to be aimed at an audience who still hold a library cards, like following lyric sheets and are old enough to remember life before it was digitalised.
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Only the rom-com tune, the catchily titled Fuck The Government, I Love You has anything resembling a conventional verse-chorus structure. This is also the one track recorded in Berlin, the rest were committed to tape at Big Belly Studios in the UK seaside town of Ramsgate.
It's original and clever with a few good one-liners but no where near as funny as he thinks it is.
File under miscellaneous Indie.
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