Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds - Lupen Crook &; The Murderbirds

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2...according to our Brian on Thu 31 Jan, 2008.

Well whilst i'm trying to get my head round Lupen Crook's awful voice, we're discussing whether Jeremy Beadle will be suitably represented by a plethora of tribute anthology style programmes in the wake of his sad demise. Possibly the most unreasonably disliked man in British culture, I feel he should be given a fair posthumous representation by the goggle box hitlers. Personally i liked it when he gave all his money away to halfwits on channel 5. Did he ever cause anyone to have a genuine heart attack I wonder with his Candid Camera wind ups & pranks? Oh, the CD? Well with his Murder Birds album he sounds like a desperate musical magpie here & the general consensus is he sounds a litle like Jack White's side splittingly dumb Tenacious D. He also swears like a plonker, like he's trying to shock his mum. This weeks true duffer (his stuff from a couple of years ago was so much better than this muddled unfocussed pub rock with tedious vocals)

Lupen Crook follows up his critically acclaimed 2006 debut ‘Accidents Occur Whilst Sleeping’:
"Unadulterated genius." (The Fly, 5/5) , "A cry from the darkest recesses of the soul, this makes for uneasy, but
compelling listening." (NME, 8/10), "A bewitching talent." (Uncut,4/5) , "An enthralling and impressive start, but you feel that this indeed is only the beginning." (Artrocker), "...an air of insanity and a genuine edge-of-the-seat brilliance that is both puzzling and highly addictive." (The Sun, 4/5), "A refereshing, uncategorisable collection." (The Times, 4/5).
The record itself was recorded in a basement beneath one of his former lodgings. A building most colourful, home to many of precarious sort, for not so long ago its boards were walked by women of the night, a brothel in fact.
Lyrically, the fractured and brittle bone rhythms of Lupen Crook’s acoustic songs run frightened through the bleak and the bourgeois, fantastic and cruel, cutting deep into the alleyways of English life. Lupen’s voice is painfully
sincere. Over the course of its ten tracks, the album stands as a testament to the band’s ability as both live and recording artists. Like militia, LUPEN CROOK and his pressure group are focused and unforgiving. The message is clear and the sound uncompromising. A punk rock affair, sharp and unashamedly straight to the point.
Vinyl Limited To 500 Only.

Tracklist: 1. Cackle And The Crown 2. The Number Of Frames 3. Matthew’s Magpie 4. Staghead And Monster
5. Summer Time 6. Sympathy, Sunshine And The Catatonic Kiss..Goodbye 7. Young Love 8. The Critic 9. Splits N
Differences 10. Lucky Six.

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