Manchester based Stage Door Guy are back with the bands latest album Beach Party! That's been produced by Colin Thorpe with assistance from Jono Podmore, Pat Collier and Lenny Bignell who corralled Jon Heal, Sami Samuels, Jono Podmore, Kamila Bydlowska, Joff Watkins and Niki Jujubes to help create this album.
The party begins with I'm Dancing and the band celebrating the fact that they can dance for so long it makes their feet bleed! this has some tricky guitar with a skanking beat as hopefully everyone on the dancefloor cheers at the Dr John reference in the lyrics.
Bullyboy has sort of rapped lyrics over the bluesy strident backing to accentuate everything wrong with the narcissistic delusional idiots who seek to run our country and believe they have the right to do so.
Ho Ho Ho is a slowly strummed acoustic song that has it in for me, as they wonder why we are all born to lose just like Vaughn Toulouse did, whatever you do look after your friends, as otherwise they will never look after you if you need them too.
L.O.V.E. has the sound of a classic Pat Collier production with lots of cool elements from the harmonica to the fiddles on this Love filled duet that of course gives us three chords and the truth.
Beach party isn't quite an ecstasy fuelled banger, as they take us to a typical rundown British seaside town, falling apart at the seams as yet another stag do staggers around town looking for fun and games.
Start At The End is slow thoughtful and despairing at the place we find ourselves at, as trust has been replaced by paranoia, as the strings float over the delicate bassline.
Fever re-works the classic lust filled song into a somewhat more modern song full of the dilemmas and pitfalls as they divert the clapping song into a treatise on the collapse of our systems in these most insane of times.
Ticket To Peru has them doing a reverse Paddington on this sing song quite childlike tune, as they talk about pennies on your eyes, that would usually be a reference to death coming far too soon.
Crash Crash Bang is sparse guitar as the vocals eventually invite more noise on the chorus as the whole world falls apart.
The album closes with Black Hole Information Paradox that's been infested by AI and algorithms deciding what the tune should be, as well as who gets to hear it, they have clearly figured out how to play the Algorithm at its own game judging by how many times the bands songs from there last album have played on my work I-pod they have cracked that nut. This is a very catchy song about modern paranoia.
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