The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Bag Of Meat

TIFD0042 / Album, CD, download / 13th June 2011
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Bag Of Meat

Tracklisting:

1. Bag Of Meat

2. A Conversation

3. Richer Than My Tribe

4. Lost My Face In A Fast Car Race

5. Fire In The Wife

6. Pistol Whipped

7. My Imagination Can't Save Me Now

8. As Jungle Drums Rang Across The Amazon (We Held Our Heads And Screamed)

9. Card Trick With A Chimp

10. John Denver's Wife

11. Not Waving But Drowning
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Stabbing keys, strained tendons and stiffened sinews work themselves into a frenzied cacophony of audio propaganda whilst pick-pockets slash, burn, smash and blur the broken fence between dystopic art-house and unspecified, high-fidelity, low-maintenance meat.



It's an agitable, tense and tetchy melodic laceration of neo/new/no/now/non/post/wave; an anthemic, torch-bearing, porch-burning anti-opera fuelled by a rash of thrash and a pound of flesh.



The Victorian English Gentlemens Club are set to release their third album, 'Bag Of Meat', via This Is Fake DIY Records in June 2011.



The album, the follow-up to 2009's 'Love On An Oil Rig', was recorded over Autumn/Winter 2010/11 in Cardiff, again working with producer Charlie Francis.



The band describe the record as having 'two halves': the first, "a reaction to the last album, heavier and darker with lots of layers of brutal noise", and the second "a return to our earlier stuff - quirkier and emptier, more vocal lead". The songs are nearly all sub-three minutes.



The songs are about heart attacks, beheading, car crashes, John Denver, Paul Daniels, meat, tribes and addictions to accident speculation.



The Victorian English Gentlemens Club are Louise Mason, Adam Taylor and James Griffiths. Louise and Adam are vegetarian.