Like Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, Ed Tracy is a man who went out in search of an adventure and never returned home. Tracy’s bright, Beefhartian base for skewed-pop cosies-up alongside Edwyn Collins and Sufjan Stevens. Lurching over a loose conglomerate of guitars, keys, bass, sax and samples, Tracy is clearly the proprietor of a unique mind that rightly acknowledges that the sullen seam of post-punk has been mined to exhaustion. Although lachrymose lyricism peppers the majority of his bittersweet pop, Tracy is at his best when he finds time to laugh at the moment he flicked Vs at his boss on Sackable Offence, and ruminating on daytime coitus. ” Are we post-watershed, on four post waterbed?” the singer asks on Between The Sheets, clearly too caught up in the moment to really care about waiting for an answer.
THE METRO
22 Oct: Glasgow, Nice N Sleazy (supporting Johnny Flynn) 23 Oct: Birmingham, Glee Club (supporting Johnny Flynn) 24 Oct: Leeds, Brudenell Social Club (supporting Johnny Flynn) 25 Oct: Manchester, Deaf Institute (supporting Johnny Flynn) 27 Oct: London, Water Rats 31 Oct: London, 93 Feet East 11 Nov: London, Bath House (supporting The Brute Chorus)
We're playing two gigs this weekend and we'd love to see you there! Friday night it's Lady Luck at Last Days of Decadence and Saturday it's Shore Leave at the George Tavern!
How’s it going Ed?
This bank holiday Sunday we’re playing the Carnival aftershow party at
Ginglik, Shepherd’s Bush Green. It’s gonna be great! Come along and say
hello.
Or, on Friday 4th September we’re playing at the very cool Born Bad
night which is normally in Brighton but has made the trip up to London
for a change. It’s at Barden’s Boudoir.
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