The Miserable Rich - The Time That's Mine

TRACKLISTING: 1. The Time That’s Mine 2. Boat Song (Sons of Noel and Adrian mix) 3. North Villas (Atlas Crease mix) 4. Over and Over (Hot Chip cover)

OVERVIEW: The Time That’s Mine is the second single from Brighton’s The Miserable Rich, following on from the well received double a-side Boat Song/Pisshead.

It’s a short and sweet song about a subject everyone will relate to: the monotony of working every day with only the weekend to look forward to. “The rhythm is meant to suggest the commuter train I used to travel on to go and teach in Eastbourne” says James, following this up with the wry comment “I’m not really comfortable with the idea of deferred enjoyment.”

It’s the acoustic guitar which provides that rhythm, and the guitar is joined by a string arrangement which confirms that the subtle beauty of the first single was no accident: this band can play.

“Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Tuesday, three more days til Friday” sings de Malplaquet, with the same seductive ease with which the working week takes over our lives, but leading us in the end to the optimism of the final flourish “Some day, some day, we’ll fly away, one day when I get my way...”

The CD only release also features a remix of Boat Song by fellow Willkommen Collective band Sons of Noel and Adrian, and a remix of album track North Villas by Atlas Crease. And just as a little added extra, there’s also the much talked about cover of Hot Chip’s Over and Over.

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