The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - AA Single

TIFD0043 / Single, Download / 22nd August 2011
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - AA Single

Tracklisting:

A: As Jungle Drums Rang Across The Amazon We Held Our Heads And Screamed

AA: Richer Than My Tribe
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The Victorian English Gentlemens Club release a double A-side single, 'As Jungle Drums Rang Across The Amazon We Held Our Heads And Screamed' / 'Richer Than My Tribe' via This Is Fake DIY Records on 22nd August 2011. Both tracks are taken from the Cardiff trio's third album, 'Bag Of Meat', which was released on 13th June to universal praise:



“A fascinating tension between the band's fondness for a good pop hook and a desire to confront, which takes them to some unusual places” - **** Uncut



“A labyrinth of unexpected rhythmic twists and turns, dirty greasy basslines and unexpectedly springy riffs” - NME



“Wall to wall vaudeville indie horror” - Loud & Quiet



First of the two jungle-themed tracks on the single, 'As Jungle Drums Rang Across The Amazon We Held Our Heads And Screamed' is described by the band as “a pop song that's been through one of those old-fashioned shaky exercise machines leaving a thinner, sweatier, jerking, catchy racket. It's about feeling sick and abandoned after someone you trusted and relied on lets you down. It's set in the Amazon to add some 70s-style surreal escapism; it's grey, British problems in a jungle. It started life as an ESG bassline, went through a million incarnations and arguments, and ended up being stripped-down and straight-up”.



'Richer Than My Tribe', also recorded during the cold months of last winter, is “a bass and drum boom: a racket with enough audio space to swing an African puma in. It's about those guilty feelings of pleasure from taking a sick day off an inane job, being bored but not bored to insanity – a small victory song for freedom. It's the first song that was written for the album, it defined the bass sound for the album, and is the first TVEGC song with rhyming in it”.