Review by Darren Gawle
Jim Bob, Fruitbat and Wez are back on a new record label and with
a new mini-album that illustrates the shape of Carter U.S.M. to
come. There's still the music hall and Bertold Brecht flavouring
that there always was, and Carter are still the less-dogmatic
disciples of Billy Bragg. This time they have seen fit to provide
us with the "hi-energy-wobbly-arse-dance music" (it
says here) of "And God Created Brixton," the upshot
of which is that they're still not likely to be played on Z95.
The wistful "Nowhere Fast" is the album's highlight
with its observation "The North and South are divided no
more / So you and I can be equally poor." You still probably
won't admit to your britpop friends that you like Carter U.S.M.,
but they do provide some good Sunday "morning-after"
listening.
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