The Jazz Butcher - Cult Of The Basement

Fire Records

£19.78

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: FIRELP473
Barcode: 0809236147318
Release Date: 26th September 2020
Genre: Indie Rock

1000 copies, black Vinyl. So, it’s the end of the ‘80s, you’re on Creation Records. You’ve got a justifiable reputation for clever lyrics, witticisms, one-liners, melancholy, irony, conceptualisation and such – plus a penchant to write pop songs. The Jazz Butcher continues to consistently makes music that stops people in their tracks providing poignant social commentary for a bedraggled nation. Cult Of The Basement (1990) sees them withdrawing very much into their own mad little world, something’s happening here. There’s still jangle but it’s wrestling with accordions. It’s “lean, jazz and cabaret-style pop gems” claimed All Music. “A disconcertingly fine magnum opus which, if it emanated from a more in-vogue source, would currently be having its maverick genius analysed to death” the Melody Maker added. “Unmistakably the work of the Butcher” Louder Than War // Remastered & Reissued for the first time on Vinyl, in it’s 30th Anniversary year, for Record Store Day 2020.

Side A A1 The Basement A2 She's On Drugs A3 Pineapple Tuesday A4 The Onion Field A5 Daycare Nation A6 My Zeppelin A7 Fertiliser Side B B1 Mr. Odd B2 After The Great Euphrates B3 Panic In Room 109 B4 Girl Go B5 Turtle Bait B6 Sister Death