Blog: The New Album from Mr P Wilson

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I received a THRILLING package through the post yesterday, the new album from all round good guy Mr Phil Wilson a.k.a. Phil From The June Brides.

I'd heard CHUNKS of the album earlier on in the year when myself and The Ducks In My Duckpond went down to Devon to see The Wilsons, and had been MIGHTILY impressed by what I'd heard, but this did little to prepare me for how BLOODY GRATE the finished article would be. CRIKEY! I'd heard most these songs live and on CD on a number of occasions, but they seem to have been sent to MASSIVE POP SCHOOL for the Summer and come back as star pupils, as it all sounds AMAZING. The sound is all HUGE and the TUNES... golly gosh, but the tunes are FAB.

I listened to it at HIGH volume whilst making a Pear and Raspberry Crumble (COOKING SIDEBAR: when crumble is so DELICIOUS and PEASY to make, why does the world still contain pie crust?) and got myself ALL EXCITED dancing round in the kitchen to it. It's not just good in an Low Key Indie sort of way, it's the sort of thing you can forsee everyone leaping around to in the Discotheque for years to come, also on the RADIO. A LOT.

As I've said before and elsewhere, I have a slightly unusual relationship with The Music Of The June Brides in that, despite having HEARD of them for YEARS (and indeed occasionally being COMPARED to them, especially round the time of our first two albums) I never actually heard the records themselves until just after I met Phil, and also Pam, at The Fox & Firkin in Lewisham a few years ago. THUS to me they've always felt like a NEW band that I've just got into, and i tend to forget the whole ARCHITECT OF INDIE bit that is Phil's due right and title. So, to me, this all sounds like a fairly speedy follow-up to that stuff, rather than the Grand Return To The Fray that it actually is.

And it also sounds like a STEP FORWARD from the original "album" - i love the June Brides stuff but, honestly, this lot does sound even BETTER! I really hope it takes off like NOBODY'S business too - I always feel a bit GUILTY about the fact that many of Phil's earlier Return To The Fray gigs were with ME, and so probably not the Massively Audienced Celebrations they OUGHT to be, but now I look forward to ACCLAIM, PHOTOSHOOTS and all round GRATENESS.

Or, to put it another way, I look forward VERY much to SHOWING OFF LIKE MAD, saying "Oh yes yes, Phil Wilson - I knew him BETWEEN him being famous." The album's out on November 9th (i just looked it up on Amazon) and I would HEARTILY recommend it to anyone who loves TUNES and POP. It's ACE!

posted 14/10/2010 by MJ Hibbett

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