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Track Listings
| 1. Rip You Right Back |
| 2. Inland |
| 3. Play Sumthing Fas |
| 4. Reason I feel like an Alien |
| 5. No Le1ft Shoe |
| 6. Technicolor Dawn |
| 7. Help Me |
| 8. And Gone |
| 9. Sum Space |
| 10. Into Sunlight |
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About the Artist
For fans of: Kraftwerk, Buzzcocks, Massive Attack, New Order, ACR, Ian Brown. Jez Kerr is bass guitarist, songwriter and vocalist of A Certain Ratio, the band he formed in Manchester in 1977 with three friends - Simon Topping, Peter Terrell and Martin Moscrop - who bonded over a shared love of Northern soul, Kraftwerk and Brian Eno, taking their name from a line in the Eno song A True Wheel. Signed for pretty much all their career to Factory and then Rob s Records, their repertoire includes classics like Shack Up , Won t Stop Loving You , Good Together and 27 Forever . ACR s cult following and appeal has never dimmed with Soul Jazz Recordings re-issuing ACR s early albums in the Noughties. However, Kerr is the only member who remains a full-time musician. This has prompted a collection of songs written based on Jez s earlier influences and, for the first time in 30 years, without ACR in mind. A digital-only single, Play Sumthing Fast, was released by Welsh valleys-based indie Higuera Records earlier this year, and another, Rip You Right Back came out at the end of May, with his debut solo album Numb Mouth Eat Waste due for release 12th September. The singles sound distinctly Mancunian; Kerr's vocals are gentle verging on tentative, the rhythmic drive of the songs is almost a throwback to early Joy Division, the guitars grind and mesh in a way that echoes the very earliest ACR records, yet everything manages to sound much brighter and more upbeat than the sum of its parts might suggest. Kraftwerk meets the Buzzcocks. He's recently performed his first ever London solo show with a band that featured ex-Fall and Ian Brown drummer Simon Wolstonecroft, former Hacienda and New Order DJ Tintin on keyboards, and Treatment s Keo Martin on guitar, as well as sold out gigs in Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and North wales. He has an extensive Nationwide tour arranged in September, when his solo album is released, and a tour of the U.S, where ACR are still cult favourites, is set for October. A well received session for Marc Riley s Radio 6 Music show early in January saw 4 tracks broadcast across the national network which in turn brought critical nods and acclaim. Website www.higuera.co.uk.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Straight out of left field, this one. After more than thirty years of brilliant skewed pop with A Certain Ratio, Jeremy Kerr finally gets round to releasing a solo album - and it's a corker. ACR were always the archetypal Factory band, even more than the mighty J.D. ... they had the best clothes and haircuts, they were the wittiest (underneath the phlegmatic Mancunian exterior), and made some of the best sounds - 'Flight' is possibly the greatest Factory single. After they left THAT label, they continued to make fine music such as 'The Big E'. I loved them and they should have been huge (and not just hugely influential).
Kerr was an integral part of that sound from the start, as part of the formidable ACR rhythm unit and as a singer and song writer; on this album he brings his considerable past and some of his favourite influences together to produce a very fine album. From the motorik pop of 'Rip You Right Back' and 'Play Sumthin Fast' to the more trance-like sounds of 'Technicolour Dawn' and 'Reason I Feel Like An Alien', Mr Kerr has made one of my favourite albums of the last few years. Anyone who loves the music of ACR, New Order, Kraftwerk or Northen Soul should find something to cherish here. 'The Thin Boys' meets 'Force' ... it's great.
Kerr has a very underrated voice too, put to good effect on the unexpectedly poignant 'Into Sunlight' - that, along with thank yous for, amongst others, Ian Curtis, Anthony H. Wilson, Martin Hannett and Rob Gretton, is damn well enough to bring a tear to your eye.
Now, all we need is some new material from Simon Topping (and a comprehensive ACR reissue programme) and Christmas really will have come early.
Early: a Definitive Anthology of Acr Recordings 1978-1985Mind Made UpShadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records
Kerr was an integral part of that sound from the start, as part of the formidable ACR rhythm unit and as a singer and song writer; on this album he brings his considerable past and some of his favourite influences together to produce a very fine album. From the motorik pop of 'Rip You Right Back' and 'Play Sumthin Fast' to the more trance-like sounds of 'Technicolour Dawn' and 'Reason I Feel Like An Alien', Mr Kerr has made one of my favourite albums of the last few years. Anyone who loves the music of ACR, New Order, Kraftwerk or Northen Soul should find something to cherish here. 'The Thin Boys' meets 'Force' ... it's great.
Kerr has a very underrated voice too, put to good effect on the unexpectedly poignant 'Into Sunlight' - that, along with thank yous for, amongst others, Ian Curtis, Anthony H. Wilson, Martin Hannett and Rob Gretton, is damn well enough to bring a tear to your eye.
Now, all we need is some new material from Simon Topping (and a comprehensive ACR reissue programme) and Christmas really will have come early.
Early: a Definitive Anthology of Acr Recordings 1978-1985Mind Made UpShadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records
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