If Joe Meek had tried his hand at Krautrock it might have turned out like this. There's a likeable DIY feelthat clanks brightly along like Can working on a very low budget.
The 'band' is actually one Lincolnshire man named Steve Eyre. He takes the name from a track from The Fall’s ‘Live At The Witch Trials’.
Like a latter Mark E Smith song, 'Fantastic Life' , the title is heavily ironic. In a mood which is more gritty realism than gloomy fatalism, Eyre (who sounds like a chain smoker) summarises the reasons not to be cheerful - "melted ice cap - trouble in Iraq" - which demand a more dynamic response than to merely "follow sheep then die".
The tale is told with the help of a bottleneck slide guitar , cheap synth effects and plenty of rough edges. It all adds to a certain lo-fi charm and I doubt that a more polished version would sound any where near so good.
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