Yesterday you may have read a spiffy little Q&A with Mother And The Addicts – a discourse which included the soon-to-be-legendary chat-up line, "darling, you’re really
lovely, I think I want to be your hur, hurr, hus, hur".
The debut album by Mother And The Addicts, entitled Take The Lovers Home Tonight, is released on Monday 22nd August. And in the 40 minutes it will take you to listen to the CD, they may just become your new favourite British band…
Mother And The Addicts ply, superficially at least, the same trade
as fellow Scot art-rocksters Franz Ferdinand. But where Franz have
already knackered themselves by sticking rigidly to their grown up
arched eyebrow white funk, Mother And The Addicts spend their time here
being almost compulsively eclectic.
There’s Father In Heaven, an instrumental which could pass as one of
The Libertines‘ old sad waltzes, but one that benefits from not having
a rubbish lanky junkie slurring borrowed poetry all over the top of it.
There’s Even Time Will Destroy Me, which we’d call ambient if we
thought it’d do it justice. Or there’s Fuck Me Mummy I Feel Ugly –
available from the band’s website as a free download – a deranged,
thousand-mile-an-hour blast of spiky pop heaven.
They can be irresistibly funky (the title track), they can be
heartbreakingly sad (the micro-lengthed Ron Dawn From Var) or they can be exactly what we wish the soundtrack to Grease was like
(everything else). Because the album changes tone so many times in 40
short minutes, it
takes a while to find the record’s heart. But it’s there – and when it
hooks you, it hooks hard.
The album is held together by Mother’s voice, which
alternates between The Make Up‘s exasperated screaming and Bryan Ferry-style
crooning. In fact, the closest reference point here is Roxy Music –
good, Virginia Plain
Roxy Music, not bad, Dance Away Roxy Music.
Mother And The Addicts have put a great big bloody smile on our faces. One to watch, definitely.
Find the cheapest way to buy Take The Lovers Home Tonight at Kelkoo.co.uk
[story by Stuart Heritage]