It’s that time again. Every year we are struck by an album that embodies the Union Jack 110 percent. That’s how The Clash’s “London Calling” changed the world, and we held our breath on The Jam’s “Sound Affects,” on Blur’s “Parklife,” on the Libertines’ “Up The Bracket.” East Side Story by Squeeze. With the Arctic Monkeys anyway. The fifth album by a grown-up and half-wise Jamie Treays now also belongs in this honorable gallery of classics. Panic Prevention” from 2007.
The best UK album since Brexit
Rather, our man with the thick South London accent (“Saaf London”) is a razor-sharp observer of the urban life around him. Besides, this album just drips with self-mockery. It starts with the title and ends with the cover shot on a golf course. A musical inventory of the island is added to his poetic flights of fancy. Jamie, who has also been referred to as “the one-man Arctic Monkey”, unrestrainedly grinds everything that has happened in Lizzy’s realm since December 1979 and “London Calling” to this day – including hip-hop, Big beat and trap.
With a little assistance from Matt Maltese, Willie J Healey and Yannis Philippakis, and production support from Hugo White (The Maccabees). “90s Cars”, the prelude, is immediately dominated by a New Order bassline, “St. George Wharf Tower” wows with a gruff Billy Bragg intro, and nothing gets more rousing than the power punk of “A Million & One New Ways To Die”. After dictation to stage diving training! En passant, the Cleverle also writes the best Brit ballads since The Beautiful South. Finally, “Old Republican” sees poaching in the dominion of emo anthems. All incredibly charming and always mercilessly trendy. Arms in the air, better still: throw them around your fellow human beings! The best UK album since Brexit.
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