Micko & The Mellotronics are back with their second album “Le Vice Anglais”. Velvet Goldmine (in which Micko incarnated Jack Fairy) fans will probably get the reference. The album features a lot of guests like Budge Magraw (Cesarians/Gretschen Hofner) and Horace Panter (The Specials) on bass, Paul Cuddeford (Holy Holy/Boomtown Rats) on lead guitar, Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey) on brass, actor/comedian Kevin Eldon (Fist of Fun, Brass Eye, It’s Kevin), guitarist Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno/Florence & The Machine) and Mike Paradinas (µ-ziq, Kid Spatula). As soon as the first song (“Words”) starts, you realize that the band’s “art punk”/glammy indie rock is still very personal, a bit as if Pulp and The Buzzcocks were jamming together. “Autosexual” and “(What’s In A) Name” were perfect catchy powerpop teasers and you’ll hear a many fine guitar melodies in “Holloway Road” or in “School Report” on this new album. Songs like “Kid From Nowhere” and “Big Name” even have a bit of 70s psych in them. As the album slowly gets to the end with “The Transformation” and “The Great Santini”, your realize that you’d still gladly listen to a few more songs and “Of Spirit and Bone” sounds like a good conclusion to this record on which each song sounds like a story. Oscar Wilde once wrote ““The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right” and “Le Vice Anglais” definitely sounds right. /Laurent C.
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