This third LP by trio behind the soundtrack to TV series Killing Eve, Belfast producer David Holmes alongside singer Jade Vincent and musician Keefus Ciancia, is a huge, sprawling cinematic 22-tracker filled with alluringly oddball, woozy, dark pop, electronica, 60s French noir and psychedelia. At times it has echoes of Fat White Family, Suicide, and something from a David Lynch film. The former is particularly reminiscent on the track Mother’s Been A Bad Girl and Girl Can’t Help It. The trio are also joined by guests Jarvis Cocker, Etienne Daho, Raven Violet and Jon Spencer, but it is Jade Vincent’s sensual voice and storytelling that offers the musical and thematic thread. Standout track is Turn Of The Screw with Raven Violet, but others on this richly diverse collection, created over a long period during lockdown, include the opener Rainbrose, Waiting For Tomorrow, WTC, Lucky, Accountable (with Jarvis Cocker) and the cinematic and beautiful There’s No Way. The title takes its inspiration from the Beatles’ White Album, in the sense of its length and sheer variety, with deliberately ironic distortion. Unwieldy at times, but a strangely hypnotic, disturbing, inspiring and unique LP filled with a huge range of moods and sounds. Out on Heavenly / PIAS.
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