Hail To The Thief (Vinyl 2xLP) Rock N Roll & 50s

Hail To The Thief (Vinyl 2xLP) Rock N Roll & 50sStunning sixth album from Oxford's finest sons. Moving slightly away from the heavy electronic influenced last two albums and back towards more intense numbers (a la 'OK Computer'). Angst filled love and hate songs. 'Hail To The Thief' is immersed in dread and paranoia, albeit a more visceral, emboldened dread and paranoia. This is one band that continues to defy expectations.

boundless creativity

with Dimitri From Paris and Africaine 808 at the control

The 13-track album features a tight

60s french pop and weimar republic cabaret

Highlights include soulful covers of Ray Charles' "What Could I Do Without You

The overall groove is somewhere between Bob James and Larry Mizell - although very much its own sort of bag as well - and titles include a great remake of "Theme From Electric Surfboard"

the country of his birth

an iconic audio counterpart inextricably intertwined with the film that still resonates to this day

Chubby and the Gang marinate its characteristic speed and sick-of-it-all energy in a mixture of 50s pop sounds

Elsewhere on the record she continues to expand her sonic palette

making copies impossible to find

Two new tracks from Beak>