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French Kiss in the Chaos

Reverend & The Makers Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (18 Aug 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Wall of Sound UK
  • ASIN: B002EP8TKM
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

1. Silence Is Talking
2. Hidden Persuaders
3. No Wood Just Trees
4. Professor Pickles
5. Long Long Time
6. No Soap in a Dirty War
7. Manifesto/People Shapers
8. Mermaids
9. End
10. Hard Time for Dreamers

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Best known for a connection with hometown pals Arctic Monkeys, Jon ‘Reverend’ McClure and his Makers finally offer tricky second album A French Kiss In The Chaos. Since 2007’s The State of Things McClure has threatened retirement, offered out the entire political class and given away an album (by his other band Mongrel) with a national newspaper. Given such distractions the follow-up is unsurprisingly somewhat mixed. Highlights include "Silence Is Talking", a proper indie disco stomper, with a pounding bassline and a nagging horn hook lifted from War’s Latin-funk favourite "Low Rider" and the excellently titled "No Soap In A Dirty War" which borrows a few lines from the Only Ones’ lost classic "Miles From Nowhere" and turns a break-up song into something unexpectedly gleeful. "Hidden Persuaders" is little more than a clumsy lesson that consumerism isn’t necessarily good for you (Jon McClure picked up the nickname ‘Reverend’ for his preachiness, after all). But "Professor Pickles" is straightforward psychedelia, all wheezy organ and slamming snare, "Long Long Time" is a sparse piano-led ballad, nearer to Richard Hawley than Alex Turner while BNP-berating "Manifesto/People Shapers" starts harsh and ends sweet. The closing "Hard Time For Dreamers" gives the game away--McClure voices his fears of war, a Tory government and rising sea levels like, realising that when the Smiths sang about death by double decker bus, they really feared a nuclear holocaust. A French Kiss In The Chaos is inconsistent and sometimes frustrating, but its quirky charm is irrepressible.--Steve Jelbert

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REVEREND AND THE MAKERS A French Kiss In The Chaos (2009 Hong Kong Love Da issue 10-track CD album the 2nd longplayer from the Sheffield-based indie rockers produced by Jagz Kooner [Primal Scream Kasabian] and mixed by Dave Sardy [Ting Tings Oasis LCD Soundsystem] the album covers topics such as global warming Prozac and consumerism and includes the single Silence Is Talking sealed picture sleeve)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Terrific 11 Feb 2010
Format:Audio CD
Every song on this album is a winner. Great melodies,wonderful tunes and excellent lyrics. It's better than their first CD. An absolute gem!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The last album was alot to live up to and on first listening I thought Mr McClure had flunked it. But it has grown on me BIG TIME.
There isn't a track that doesn't hit the spot - play it loud in your car and wait in anticipation for the third album.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I'm A Believer 27 July 2009
By The Wolf TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Having just listened to and reviewed A-Ha's simply
dreadful new album 'Foot Of The Mountain' it is
both a relief and a real pleasure to have had the
opportunity to hear Reverend and The Makers splendid
new collection 'A French Kiss In The Chaos'.

No frills, no fuss, high octane melodic rock of the highest calibre.
A little bit old-fashioned in the best possible way.

In Jon McClure the band have a talented and charismatic front man.
The force behind the fire. The bees knees. A big, bad, boss man.

What a great little band they are. Tight as a vice.

'No Wood Just Trees' is alone worth the price of the album.
The rhythm section and brass arrangement is electric.

The raw conviction of McClure's performance on 'Long Long Time',
at just two and a half minutes, is the album's highpoint.
A simple and simply beautiful song, beautifully sung.

'No Soap (In A Dirty War)', too, is a classy piece of writing.
Strong melody, rousing chorus and an ecstatic, driving conclusion.
(Arcade Fire at their elemental best came to mind).

'Manifesto / People Shapers' is a rapturous, echo-laden, incantation.
Politically charged voodoo for a spiritually challenged age.

'Hard Time For Dreamers' brings the album to a dark conclusion.
The song wears its heart on its sleeve. The sincerity is self-evident.

I'm A Believer.

Very Highly Recommended.
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