Flipron - Book Of Lies / Mess It Up

Released 29th September on Tiny Dog Records

It’s been a while since Jesse Budd and his band of merry men he calls Flipron came and reminded us that oh yes there is a musical world beyond the one documented in the daily drone of the mainstream music press. 2006’s Biscuits For Cerberus set did just that with its echoes of gothic cartoon beat poetry, baroque blues, bohemian pop, ‘60s psychedelia and ‘20s Hawaiian, and here we have a double A-side single that bounces out of a similar, magically inventive box. 'Book of Lies' is Ivor Cutler chasing Paul McCartney down a scenic country lane in a high-powered drag racer, with Anselm Hollo singing poems on the stereo, and Sol Hoopii being town along on a winnebago; 'Mess it Up' and extra track 'The Uses of Superstition' the love children that the four would spawn should any children come from the chase. To hell with the modern orthodoxy.

© 2008 Neil Jones

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