Tuesday, August 19, 2025

250 Albums- An Arbitrary Rumble Through My Record Collection # 140 Bill Ryder Jones - West County Kirby Primary

 


Being British is an attitude you're either born to or need to adopt pretty damned quickly of you're hoping to survive.The best time for this realisation is the moment that it sinks in that the decline towards Autumn has begum. You could put on the Kinks. They're very good at expressing this ennui. The mpment the heart sinks. You could play Nick Drake . Or alternatively just play West County Kirby Primary Bill Ryder Jones masterpiece of Every Day Is Like Sunday Northern grit and bear it classicism..

It's textbook 'well if I seem a luttle strange well that's because I am' almost defeated attotude. Billy in Kes.. 'Yeah I'm a bit depressed .That's cos I'm sensitive pal. What's it to you.' Kitchen sink shrug and off down the pib romanticism of the finest order. If Simon Armitage , Alan Bennett, Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn had formed an indie band they'd sound just like this.. Oh Simon Armitage already did. Listening to this I'm not sure he needed to. 

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