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)
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