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The Hepburns is the brainchild of Guitar/vocalist Matt Jones whose band seem to have been around along time. I'm sure they had some stuff out years ago but i've not heard much from them until this appeared on my desk. For those of you in the know The Hepburns make very intelligent, sophisticated pop music with constant references to literary greats and whole days lost to booze madness. 'Trojan Hearse' is a beautifully melodic record that takes the best eleven songs from a mammoth ninety track recording session (now that's alot of ideas for one rekkid) and presents them in a tasteful and laid back manner. The music sounds very much like The Monochrome set or The Smiths but i can also hear a little Stereolab in there too. Matt Jones vocals are insightful, fun and very well articulated. You get the impression that's what the band are all about, leave plenty of room for the vocals to breath and lyrics to sink in and before you know it you'll be hooked. Proper U.K pop traditionalists. Take a listen yo!You want to know what this album is about?
First you have to appreciate the beauty not of Federer’s ‘Backhand’ or of his fve-set win over
Nadal to take his ffth Wimbledon title—no not the beauty of that—but of his decline, his down-
ward arc, his plimsolled feet as they descend towards the ground.
Ladies and gentleman I give you a toast…
To the latter-day Icarus; to the middle-aged man, his arithmetical cage, struck dumb by the
songbird half his age
To hairstyles ruined by the rain and the view from down the drain
The unwelcome guest, the reluctant host; all the ghosts from California to the Baltic Coast!
Trojan Hearse. For drunks, cyclists and drunk cyclists everywhere.
-Matt Jones
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