Title Track: TBA

Release Date: March 2009

Producers: Jamie T, Ben Bones

Tracks: Hocus Pocus, Emily’s Heart, Murder On The Green, Sticks And Stones, Bruce

Two years on from 2007′s Mercury Prize-nominated album Panic Prevention, cockney geezer/kitchen-sink poet Jamie Treays has been looking to America for inspiration, referencing Bright Eyes and Joanna Newsome as influences on his still-untitled second long-player.  He says he’s written some conventional verse-chorus-verse tracks and particularly likes the idea of “summing a story up in one line”, as opposed to his usual stream-of-consciousness ranting.  “I prefer singing about what I see, rather than lyrics that are too metaphorical,” he says.  “It’s easier to filter out the crap when you do more structured songs…but then I get bored and go back to my old way!”

David Harfield

(published in MOJO magazine, March 2009)