Meat For A Dark Day - Vanity Unfair

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4...according to our Maggie on Thu 05 Jul, 2007.

First up I have Meat For a Dark Day with a single called Vanity Unfair on the fantastic label Sheffield Phonographic Corporation... (lets hope they ain't swimming in the Yorkshire floods). A great 7" showcasing the differing sides of the band with a slow smog-esque A side with haunting dulcet vocals, tinkling piano and plucked guitar. Richard Hawley style. The other side is a more chanting Mark E Smith style vocals with drums and guitar to make you shift your hips and tits.

Lyrically engaging & musically sharp, Meat for a Dark Day are a Sheffield rock and roll band, featuring ex-Fat Truckers vocalist Mark Hudson. Their debut single for Thee SPC illustrates perfectly the two different sides of the band: from the beautiful mournful kitchen sink tale “Three Mallards” to the unreconstructed garage swagger of “Vanity Unfair”. The band’s musical influences are wide and far from predictable, but they certainly share something in common with artists whose names are often mentioned by reviewers; Smog, Nick Cave, The Fall, early Ten Benson, Arab Strap, Jesus and Mary Chain, Tom Waits. Meat For A Dark Day produced this single with Ross Orton (MIA, Fat Truckers, Jarvis Cocker) & Dean Honer (All Seeing Eye, I Monster, Add N to (X).)

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