“His best material since Cupid? Indisputably. His best album, ever? Looking more likely with every listen.” —Simon Reynolds (author of the critically acclaimed post-punk history Rip It Up and Start Again)
“All that history is implicit as Gartside—simply ignoring the possibility of 1980s nostalgia—instead unveils a talent as unclassifiable and undimmed as ever.” —Nick Hasted, Independent (UK)
White Bread Black Beer, released in 2006, was the first new album by Green Gartside, the man who is Scritti Politti, since 1999. The album features tracks written and recorded solo by Gartside in a back room in his Hackney, London, home. He'd had hits in the 80s and was very popular in the States, but this is without any shadow of a doubt his best work. Filled with lush harmonies (with himself, multi-tracked) and the smoothest, silkiest, production, there is not one track even remotely imperfect
In fact, I'd go further ... this is one of the finest albums ever made!
Road To No Regret
No Fine Lines
Petrococadollar
Mrs Hughes
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