Luke Haines - 21st Century Man

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 29 Oct, 2009.

I'm enjoying the fact that there's a track called 'White Honky Afro' on the new Luke Haines album. And the picture of him on the inside cover raising a glass to you, the listener, is something to see as well. I think you know what you're getting with this fella by now what with his myriad releases under various guises down the years and it's hard to imagine fans being disappointed with 21st Century Man and it's limited bonus album Achtung Mutha, offering as they do a truckload of witty, wordy cynicism dumped unceremoniously down an embankment of varied instrumentation, alternately lush and gritty, for later transportation into a giant polluted sea of black humour. Plus there's a tune about Klaus Kinski which is one way to get me on side.. I wish I still had his autobiography, it was proper amazing. Anyway, the old misery guts has easily kept up his reputation for quality here so feel free to partake without fear if there's been a Luke-shaped hole in your life recently.

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TRACKLISTING:
01 Suburban Morning 02 Peter Hammill 03 Klaus Kinski 04 Love Letter To London 05 Wot A Rotter 06 Our Man In Buenos Aires 07 Russian Futurists Black Out The Sun 08 English Southern Man 09 White Honky Afro 10 21st Century Man
Bonus CD ‘Achtung Mutha”: 01 Achtung 02 Mother 03 The Great Brain Robbery Part 1 04 Ex-Teds 05 The Great Brain Robbery Part 2 06 Playground Dread 07 Greenwich Observatory 08 The Great Brain Robbery Part 3 09 Fag Break

Variously described as a national treasure and one of Britain’s greatest living songwriters. Luke Haines may be equally at home writing about teenage sex, terrorism, pop/film stars, child murder or broken love affairs, but he’s excelled himself on this, his fifteenth album as a principal songwriter.
Founder and frontman of The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof, and recently involved with Black Box Recorder, Haines has also released solo albums and recently released his debut book – the critically acclaimed “Britpop and My Part In It’s Downfall”.

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