The ever masterful Gare Du Nord have just put out yet another great record. They're a truly wonderful record label. Specialising in a marvellous, definitively English sensibility. By English I mean in the good sense of the word, not the essentially bogus peddled by Brexit merchants, but an England of wet Saturday afternoons pottering around second hand record and bookshops or playing pitch and putt before retiring to the local for a pint and then home for tea.
Picturebox, (who I suspect take their name from a classic Seventies British children's programme), fit the Gare Du Nord sensibility perfectly. Think Blur, with Graham Coxon singing, XTC, Syd Barrett, Bevis Frond or a nicer non-bitter Luke Haines. Gently, sensitive and beautifully crafted Pop songs the way they used to write them.
Setting off with two of the best songs you'll hear this month in Grumble, ('mustn't grumble' the English catchphrase, we still do believe me) and Divvy Cabs, (a divvy is a slightly unpolitically correct term for something stupid for those not from these shores). 'Oh divvy cabs, divvy divvy, divvy cabs. Where do they go? Can I get one.' perfect.
The album centrepiece is I Got the Pox a six minute thing of glory and corny AABB rhyming patterns building to a splendid Krautrock guitar freakout. Then onto The Vicar's Dog about the vicar's dog and closing time. pop music for middle aged folk. Altogether recommended!
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