‘A bizarre classic with echoes of Syd Barrett in the vocal and the Modern Lovers musically. It reduces the probable 10/10 to a 9.Įverything changed with I Lost My Head. Musically it was and still is, very annoying and oddly, the only duff track on an otherwise brilliant album.
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“ It’s like Windows 98 in here…” It seemed to my ears to take the Franz Ferdinand hook from Take Me Out and bend it slightly out of shape until it sounded sea-sick. Hard Rock Potato was the first track to emerge. The track by track pre-publicity for Sod’s Toastie got off to a bit of a dodgy start…. That despite his disturbing assertions that Don’t you realise your mother would eat you if she was hungry enough? And people don’t like to talk about their masturbatory experiences / Unless you force them into a corner over dinner. Will Self and Charlie Brooker are their Gods and they imagine Tom Greenhouse would be a great fantasy dinner-guest.
And prefer dystopian Lit and niche surrealist comedy. These are anthems in fractured short-story form set to music, for outsiders and oddballs who find most music too predictable.
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Sod’s Toastie is full of surprises, repetition, existentialism, dark humour with a desperate underlying gravitas: Surrealism and dis-orienteering through the poverty, tedium and chaos of everyday life and the psychogeography of the mind… with an unreliable compass and half-blind sheep-dog… They are brand leaders not followers of a so-called ‘trend’. The Point Being: The Cool Greenhouse were doing this kind of talk-sing-thing way before the others. Here is a Fact: Dates of respective first releases on Bandcamp -Wet Leg, Yard Act, Dry Cleaning, The Cool Greenhouse (and thisfrom Jan 2017) Their self-contained underdog status and genuine independence makes them a far more worthwhile outfit than certain other supposed contemporaries. The Cool Greenhouse are officially cool and ‘The Only Sprechgesang Band That Matters’ in the world that revolves around me at least. Having lived with this album for a full eight weeks now, it really is one of my favourites, so therefore one of the ‘best’ of the year. Who needs critics when the promo sheet says it all? Sod’s Toastie is hilarious at times, and at others just hilariously good – a not-so-difficult second album.
On Sod’s Toastie, The Cool Greenhouse have pushed their distinctive flavour of post-punk to the point of perfection – their incongruous riffs, alchemical instrumental chemistry, and irreverent spoken-word vocals are a delight throughout. Except when an album this fantastic is let loose.Īnd you may ask yourself – ….well, what the fuck am I doing with my life!Īnd you may say to yourself – My God, how derivative have I become. Ged Babey lives in a glass house so seldom throws parties. The Cool Greenhouse become serious contenders without any corporate cock-sucking and compromise. ‘The Only Sprechgesang Band That Matters’ vomit out an album to treasure, baffle and amuse.
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