Definitely a record wort hunting down. Sunhouse are best known for being championed by Film Director Shane Meadows and Uncut Magazine. This has a wild, windswept intensity that glows. For a while I just listened to Monkey Dead on a loop in the late 1990s. But there are othe songs here that are good enough to live with it.
Gavin Clark, Sunhouse's singer and principle songwriter was a considerable talent. He had alcohol related difficultiesand gave up music and became a pizza delivery man. The house where Crazy on the Weekend lives is hardly a sunny one. These songs, grounded in Old Folk and Blues are bleak and despairing ones. No less resonant or special for that.
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