Description
SITW's fourth studio album is a satirical celebration of mistakes
A joyous lambasting of everyone and everything that's wrong in the world, against
the real-time backdrop of global uncertainty, corruption and political unrest.
A London Charivari. Rough Music. A gleeful old- fashioned cancelling. A
Chaunter's delight. 14th Century recording demons collecting mistakes in a sack.
Women mugging rich merchants. Nettles being pissed on. Shit food at Lent. A
terrible plan. An undoing. The aftermath of a car crash. Catching people doing
something they shouldn't. Nursery rhymes reimagined as death threats. Behind
the sarcastic acerbic delivery, Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter convey thoughtful,
essential interpretations encouraging us all to check ourselves, through the multilayered music of cities through time. This is about as far away from pastoral folk
music as you can get.
In their typical wry city-weary style, a beady eye is cast over those committing
wrongs in plain sight, with Kearey narrating a series of tales of people fucking up,
or being fucked up, with some brief respite in Lavender - one of London's oldest
street melodies - the album being named after the 14th Century story of Tittivilus,
the recording demon, who collects scribes' mistakes (pokes) and the idle chatter
of the "liars with their hairy tongues" congregation.
Despite this seriousness, the album's working-class dry gallows humour carries a
stoic "if you don't laugh you'll cry" feeling amongst the corruption, scandals and
barefaced lies we all observe on a daily basis, with a warning that "only you can
fx your defcits" and "it's your words and deeds that matterand let me tell you,
they speak volumes".
Tracks: Crystal Tears / Back Of The Hatch / A Thousand
Pokes / Burnt Walk / Lavender / The Cramp / Cracks / Can't Stop / What Can The
Matter Be / Watercress-o / Brisk Lad / Hush / Steals The Thief
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