This is the latest mini-album by the prolific Nightingales and is available as a 10" vinyl album and download only. it comes with original artwork, featuring a painting by Konrad Wallinger in the style of the early Russian Futurists.
The record opens with B-side At Best: a typically obtuse and truculent title and song with Robert Lloyd sharing vocals with drummer Fliss Kitson as he complains about someone using obvious jokes and obvious lines - something Nightingales are rarely accused of. Yes Fliss' deadpan intones that she wants to sign you baby because you look good. This sums up a large part of the music biz succinctly.
In opens with Robert ordering his fave cocktail, Prosecco and Gin, before the guitars take off and rub up against the tetchy drums and bass on a typical Nightingales tune. Again, there are some nice counterpoint vocals from Fliss rubbing up against the complaints and cool observations Robert makes. This will grow on you very quickly.
Too Posh Too Push isn't about getting part of (or all) of the Anchor overboard. Instead, it's a slow-starting, neo-western soundtrack aimed squarely at all his Yummy Mummy friends who want it all on a plate including their new born sprogs as the music becomes denser and builds an opaque wall of noise like a placenta being pulled through a keyhole in a Tesco value birthing suite.
The B-side opens with The Divorce That Never Was: one of those quiet-loud ruminations on how modern marriage does and doesn't work and how having some comments from the Soup Dragon is a needed relief as Robert tries to get away from her once again. This can only be solved by getting sludgy and sleazy and just a little bit contorted both musically and lyrically.
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Booze And Broads and Beauty is a sort of Lifestyle anthem for misanthropic men to ponder over as they try to imagine what it would be like to actually have some beautiful Broads who talk to him without the aid of copious amounts of alcohol. The drums and guitars rumble on before reaching a great staccato ending.
The mini-album closes with the rather urgent-sounding Drown which seems to be about another sinking ship of a relationship going down, though it plays out as the music lifts us up into a wonderful cathartic battle as Fliss' vocals run counter to Roberts and they leave us with a new sense of doubt as to why they aren't huge stars.
This 10" Mini-Album is well worth getting a copy of as usual with Nightingales. You can grab a copy from The Nightingales online
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