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Insecure Men

Karaoke For One: Vol 1

    In case you don't know by now, Insecure Menare led by Saul Adamczewski (Fat White Family) and his schoolmate Ben Romans-Hopcraft. There debut album was a glorious mess of  exotica, easy listening, lounge and timeless pop music.They now return with this 10 track covers record, feat. takes on Bruce Springsteen, The Pogues, The Carpenters, Peter Andre et al.

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    Barry says: It's a completely bizarre but thoroughly brilliant re-working of some karaoke classics from Insecure Men here, including the Police, the Denny's and PETER BLOODY ANDRE. WTAF / This is brilliant. Special shout-out to the Pogues' 'A Rainy Night In Soho'.

    TRACK LISTING

    SIDE A
    1. Rainy Days And Mondays
    2. Mysterious Girl
    3. She Thinks I Still Care
    4. A Rainy Night In Soho
    5. Streets Of Philadelphia

    SIDE B
    1. Roxette
    2. I'm So Depressed
    3. Sail Away To The Sea
    4. Picture Cards Can't Picture You
    5. Madame George

    In many ways Insecure Men - the band led by the fiercely talented songwriter and musician Saul Adamczewski and his schoolmate and stabilising influence, Ben Romans-Hopcraft - are the polar opposite of the Fat White Family. Whereas sleaze-mired, country-influenced, drug-crazed garage punks the Fat Whites are a “celebration of everything that is wrong in life”, Insecure Men, who blend together exotica, easy listening, lounge and timeless pop music, are, by comparison at least, the last word in wholesomeness.

    The band originally formed in 2015 in the cramped confines of The Queens Head pub, Stockwell, in the Fat White Family’s notorious South London ‘practice space’. Saul recorded all of the songs he wrote at The Queens Head onto tape at Sean Lennon’s studio in upstate New York. This tape, recorded on his own in a corridor onto an ancient Tascam while in a foul mood with his mates, essentially became Insecure Men’s self-titled debut album as more layers were dubbed over the top until nothing of the original demos remained.

    Saul lists some of the influences on their sound, mentioning the exotica of Arthur Lyman, the early electronic pop of Perrey and Kingsley, the supreme smoothness of The Carpenters, the songwriting chops of Harry Nilsson and the hypnagogic uncanniness conjured up by David Lynch, describing what they do as “pretty music with a dark underbelly to it”.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Subaru Nights
    2. Teenage Toy
    3. All Women Love Me
    4. Mekong Glitter
    5. Heathrow
    6. I Don't Wanna Dance (With My Baby)
    7. The Saddest Man In Penge
    8. Ulster
    9. Cliff Has Left The Building
    10. Whitney Houston And I
    11. Buried In The Bleak


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