‘A highly eccentric but thoroughly engaging electronic/art-pop debut that aligns him with the Fall, Denim and Frank Zappa.” Uncut.
So English if you scratched the surface you can bet it smells of sausages and jam, Full English Breakfast is a concept album by (and the brainchild of) the art-pop performer Alvine Spetz. Now, some of you may be aware (go on admit it!) that Alvine Spets is also the name of a particularly fine brand of net curtains available in Swedish DIY store IKEA, so one must assume there’s some skulduggery afoot. But, rest assured, Alvine Spetz has no intention of pulling himself together.
Full English Breakfast is a clever record, and one that bears repeated listening. A rich diffusion of the mundane profanities within the urban landscape that surrounds us, Full English Breakfast is also such an impenetrably severe artefact that it is hard to believe it wasn’t released on Rough Trade Recordings in 1979 then subsequently performed twelve months later at the Leeds Futurama Rock Festival. The album’s opening title track is a case in point: with apparent glee, Spetz references several breakfast items over the top of an impossibly likeable guitar line and some appropriately lost-future sequencers and one is immediately transported into a greasy spoon where Mark E Smith sits smoking in the corner. Another track called Cake Stand is reminiscent of The Residents or Throbbing Gristle (or even Devo) and features a looped sample of Peggy Mitchell from Eastenders (who else?) saying “Alright My Love”, yet another (Shift key Noodles) is a song about the recording process – “Cut and paste/Refresh” – and best of all is Song For A Nut.
Song For A Nut has a jaunty Postcard-era edge to it and features a travelling sales rep in M25 road hell staring into the abyss (ie a packet of KP nuts) until he sees “a lonely peanut by the side of the road, hitchin’ a ride.” Surmising that there are too many grudges between nuts and men, our hero decides to give the peanut a lift and listen to its tales “about a boy called Johnny and a girl called Sue.” The song itself ends in sublime confusion and has spawned a charming, hilarious video featuring a real life, giant peanut!
Spetz discovered music at Aberdeen University and became inspired by the sounds of Edwyn Collins, The Fall, Josef K and The Pop Group. With Full English Breakfast he has found his metier.
Full English Breakfast release 'Full English Breakfast' on July 27th 2009 on Scratchy Records. The single 'Song For A Nut' will be released on July 20th 2009
Art work done, reckkid mastered, am just tweaking cover ready to send. Am launching in January and would be good to have meet soon to talk pr possibilities. How about we have a little celebratory lunch when I get the cds back.
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