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	Shriekback Glory Bumps Genre: Alternative Rock 2007 release from the long-serving British Alternative band led by former XTC keyboardist Barry Andrews. Glory Bumps, their 11th album, is in many ways more recognizably the descendant of Shriekback's mid-'80s Alt-Rock' c... more » « less
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All Artists: Shriekback
Title: Glory Bumps
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Malicious Damage Records/Darla
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 6/18/2007
Album Type: Import
Genre: Alternative Rock
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 823566429128

Synopsis

Album Description

2007 release from the long-serving British Alternative band led by former XTC keyboardist Barry Andrews. Glory Bumps, their 11th album, is in many ways more recognizably the descendant of Shriekback's mid-'80s Alt-Rock' classic Oil And Gold than any since. Anthems, hooligan choruses, big guitars, brass, a smattering of Psychobilly and, as usual, shed-loads of words. Glory Bumps has a curious tangential relationship with Barry Andrews' and Martyn Barker's recent improvised album Monstrance, a collaboration with XTC's Andy Partridge - Glory Bumps uses a number of loops created from the Monstrance album ['because they were there'] as well as Martyn's inimitable live drums and real-time guitar contributions from Andy. However there is no doubt that this is a Shriekback album 100% - as you will hear Wendy Partridge who has sung backing vocals on every Shriekback album since 1986 features as does Barry's son Finn Andrews (of The Veils) who lends his intense vocals to the happy-clappy title track. CD in embossed gold foil pack with lyric sheets. Malicious Damage 2007.

CD Reviews

I'm feelin' it!

Evil Voodoo Celt | Arlington, VA USA | 07/03/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Noisier and more expansive than Cormorant, Glory Bumps is a CD to play loud while jumping around. The actinic buzz and tidal power of Oil and Gold; the warm ultraviolet glow and demonic playfulness of Big Night Music; all wrapped up with a mordant sophistication like a tongue-in-cheek undertaker. Some notable standouts for me: "Hooray for Everything" gets things rolling with a brazen paean to shenanigans of all kinds; "The Bride Stripped Bare" and "Mahalia" are a pair of hymns to dangerous angels; "Amaryllis in the Sprawl" is an urban meditation reminiscent of "Psycho Drift" on but haunted by Andrews' side project "Illuminati"; and the title track is... well, just imagine a demonic man with a shaved head as a door-to-door Rapture-obsessed evangelist, and you've got the picture there. A fine entry into the Shriekback canon..."

Extremely Enjoyable

Scott McFarland | Manassas, VA United States | 11/20/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"All you really have to say to someone who appreciated Shriekback in their prime (mid-80's) is, this really does sound like prime-grade stuff. You could have told me this was recorded between "Oil and Gold" and "Big Night Music". Clearly these guys remember exactly how they made the perfect tracks on those records, and can do it at will - not that these songs are duplicates of those, but the perfection of that earlier sound is still in evidence in service of these songs. I will always miss original members Carl Marsh and David Allen, but their absense is compensated for here by a really great set of drum tracks, and a great assortment of the type of strange analogue sounds that this band was founded on the basis of.

Good songs with traction recorded brilliantly. I can't say enough about it. Cream rising to the top.

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Becoming Classic Shriek

Chill Fan | San Diego, CA | 08/13/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Five songs on this offering hearken back to the style of classic Shriekback (think Oil and Gold, Big Night Music, etc.), while the rest is the dissonant clamour which pervades Cormorant. I like both styles, actually, but admit to having a warm place in my soul for the old and familiar.

I give my highest ratings to the following tracks: Bittersweet, Amaryllis in the Sprawl, Yarg 7, Mahalia, and Hooray for Everything. I do hope we hear more like these in the future."