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Artist: Lord Cut-Glass
Album: Lord Cut-Glass
Label: Chemikal Underground
Playtime: 36:54 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.myspace.com/lordcutglass
Rip date: 2009-06-09
Street date: 2009-06-22
Size: 52.18 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 186 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Lord Cut-Glass, the solo incarnation of ex-Delgado Alun Woodward, takes his
maiden album bow for Chemikal Underground on June 22nd.à
Sometimes bashful, occasionally imbued with curmudgeonly bluster, and yet
always lifted by humorous life learned truisms, Lord Cut-Glass strikes a
dashing figure of musically inventive bravado. Galloping percussion, waltzes
and marches, promenades of male and female harmony, delicate and serene
creations punctuated by casual profanity and shot through with brazenly
hilarious words-to-the-wise.
It is an album comprising one manÆs refined grasp of the musical form, an
idiosyncratic pursuit thatÆs unmistakably in the lineage of independent
Scottish music. With its beguiling application of eclectic even anachronistic
styles, sharply recalled sense and scene, it is the product of a febrile
mindà ôAt the start of recording I got Scarlet Fever and stayed in bed for
ages, reading my girlfriends books.ö Explains Woodward of Lord Cut-GlassÆ
creation, ôI read Under Milk Wood in a feverish state and decided I would
call myself after one of the charactersö.
WoodwardÆs solo project has grown incrementally over the 4 years since The
Delgados disbanded. In between ônon rock n rollö spots of gardening on his
allotment, doses of scarlet fever and work on Chemikal Underground releases û
including those of Aidan Moffat and The Phantom Band û the moniker æLord
Cut-GlassÆ has made fleeting appearances on ChemikalÆs own Ballads Of The
Book project and the compilation Worried Noodles.
ôMusically I started writing songs with the idea of being in a band with a
couple of other people. I asked them and they said they didn't want to, so I
thought fuck it I'll do it all myself.ö
And so with typically casual defiance Lord Cut-GlassÆ debut was recorded at
the labelÆs own studio Chem 19 with former Delgados drummer Paul Savage on
the skins, and Woodward himself writing and arranging the parts for an
integral band of classical musicians from across Glasgow.
ôIf Lord Cut-Glass was a political leader heÆd be more dictator than
democrat: more Charlemagne than Chiracö explains Woodward.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Even Jesus Couldn't Love You ( 4:15)
02. Look After Your Wife ( 4:10)
03. Holy Fuck ( 3:41)
04. I'm A Great Example To The Dog ( 2:18)
05. Monster Face ( 2:44)
06. You Know ( 4:04)
07. Be Careful What You Wish For ( 1:52)
08. Picasso ( 4:02)
09. A Pulse ( 3:42)
10. Big Time Teddy ( 2:53)
11. Toot Toot ( 3:13)
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