Mick Trouble is an American living in the here and now. But don't go telling him that because you'll only burst his bubble. Because in his mind he's a Londoner and is putting out his first album in 1981. To prove it he's put Margaret Thatcher on the album cover. The Falklands War is about to start.
It's difficult to know how exactly to take this conceit but the record itself is very good. Trouble has certainly learned his lines. Every song is a perfect replication of its chosen time and place. Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, Television Personalities and assorted bands from the late Seventies Mod Revival jostle for attention. It's the Mick Trouble LP, has twelve songs and none of them misses a beat.
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