The Smittens / The Just Joans

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 20 Aug, 2009.

The evergreen WeePOP! records go down the split 7" route again, this time with The Just Joans & the Smittens, both of whom have offered a cover of each others songs and an original to boot. I love the JJs' Smittens cover, 'Gin & Platonic', all lazy accordion & sleepy banjo with M/F sing-song vocals lamenting the stress & torture of relationships. 'I Hear You're the Man Now, John' is another slice of maudilin, bitter poetry sung by a man that is so Scots, I think he's probably deck both Proclaimers brothers in one casual glance of the feest. Bussy Lady thinks he should keep his cynical mutterings top himself but I digress, I love a bit of mardy banter mesen, especially delivered in a glue-thick dialect. The two Smittens tunes are of a twee-er B&S like disposition. Brett wants to have words with these girls & boys about their approximation of old Sleeper vocal harmonies, 'cos of course, the old Britpop legends were totally pioneering, original songsmiths weren't they? 'What Do We Now?" is actually a cover of an old Just Joans track! All in all the perkier of the two sides, a pink vinyl trad indie oddity that is packaged with love & hand numbered of 500.

# Track Listing
# 1. What do we do now
# 2. Summer sunshine
# 3. Gin and platonic
# 4. I hear you're the man now, John

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