Colin Robinson has stepped up to the mike to add another layer of eccentricity to Cardigan Road, the new album by his one-man project Jumble Hole Clough. His throaty rumblings will separate the wheat from the chaff long before Smother, the first track, is finished. Within two minutes that is. He goes funky in an unforgiving way, grumbling about sheds, football (Hamilton Academicals vs. Airdrieonians, Late Kick Off (Saturday afternoons were always like this in my childhood)) and of course people who believe that there are little creatures living in the woods (Away with the Faeries).
As per usual as a there is a love song of sorts about big machines (Pilkington’s Shuttles Circle The Globe) - he is a retired electrical engineer after all, but also two songs in a row about dancing (I broke my toes doing the Hokey-Cokey and Bertie was a Morris Dancer), which must be a first for him. He must have realised that no one ever wrote an avant-garde ode to a table napkin and he took care of that will the shapeshifting album's closer Serviette.
Cardigan Road is a lot of fun, decidedly weird, and changes of hearing it in a tearoom are zero. Robinson caters to a niche, who are capable to follow his whimsical wanderings, while others are likely to get lost in his musical maze.
Cardigan Road is a self-released album. Buy it (pay-what-you-want) from his website.
Tracks:- Smother
- SHED
- Murder Police Quiz Nutty Professor
- Funky Milton Keynes
- Away with the Faeries
- Glimpse
- Pilkington’s Shuttles Circle The Globe
- Shed
- Myama
- I broke my toes doing the Hokey-Cokey
- Bertie was a Morris Dancer
- Hamilton Academicals vs. Airdrieonians, Late Kick Off (Saturday afternoons were always like this in my childhood)
- Upon Observing Bear Pit on Cardigan Road
- Serviette
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