So much for the rumour mill, eh? I mean, if you’d believed the advance notices, you’d have assumed GRAHAM COXON’S return would involve a re-embracement of lo-fi pop, leaning heavily on acoustic guitars, not least if you’d read that news item in the NME some time around the New Year.
The reality, of course, is that Coxo’s new single “Standing On My Own Again” is (roll up the flags!) basically another utterly fantastically punky outing from the same stable as “Freakin’ Out” (or should that read “Freakin’ Ahhtt”?) with the emphasis placed very much on Graham’s joyful, Skids-y guitars, chewy’n’twangy basslines and drums that could raze small disused power stations.
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It all amounts to another unmissably joyful four minutes that will rip up college discos up and down the land for the remainder of the year and bodes hearteningly well for GC’s new album, which we can now confidently hope will again be stuffed with idiosyncratic genius.
Fackin’ ace, then, in layman’s terms.
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