Sublimity and tragedy meet once again in this brilliantly beautiful, darkly humorous sixth album by Manchester-based US singer-songwriter Brian Christinzio, charting his latest disaster – after nine years, the sudden breakup with his fiancée. The album captures events and feelings like a home movie, including, with lots of colourful detail, especially on the song The Movie, which depicts Brian (“Scene one / We see a man in his forties / He's sat at the kitchen table/ Dressed in a kermit the frog onesie”) a verbatim recreation (his ex voiced by an actress) of that last row in the kitchen before he was kicked out, and his excruciatingly funny, candid lines such as: “Couldn't you have done this three weeks before I spent a million pounds on your air fryer?” There are many deliriously painful moments and killer lines on this album but also of course beautiful melodies, rich production and a broad range of styles and sounds. Other standouts include the apocalyptic The Last Rotation of Earth ("Oh, what a bеautiful morning" I say to the Tesco guy, He goes, "Are you okay?"), It Never Rains In Manchester, Kicking Up A Fuss, about his stay in a terrible hotel in Liverpool while recording the record, She’s Gone Cold (“it’s snowing in the lounge / the fish tank is frozen, poor sea monkey town”), and Going Out On A Low Note. Deportation, depression, alcoholism and breakup. Let’s hope Brian can survive all this, and continue to yet more superbly creative pop, after all, perhaps it’s these difficulties that are the spur. Out on Bella Union.
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