Extradition
Order – Kennedy (Jezusfactory Records)
CD/DL
Out Now
Alternative post-punksters
release their third album.
Welcome to
your new ‘favourite album with accounts the period of American history
surrounding the lives and loves of the Kennedy family’. Originally from Warrington, the band are currently
a six-piece whose line-up includes producer Ian Button who also has past credit
with Death In Vegas and Thrashing Doves.
The bands
style is hard to pin down. Best thrown
into the pot of ‘post-punk’, they have echoes of funk, disco and more than a
splattering of 80s mad-boys, Stump. Influenced
by the bands passion for the iconic period they have assembled eleven tracks
each with a reference to Kennedy history, and brilliant album artwork emulating
famous images including the brothers ‘deep in thought’ pose.
Opener, Boy
In Uniform which unsurprisingly has more than a passing resemblance to Gang Of
Four’s ‘banned’ 1982 single I Love A Man In Uniform, is an entirely entertaining
madcap catchy collage of jangly guitar, military beat and often out-of-key
vocals.
Whether
intended or not the band often sound out of tune with either vocals or guitars. If it is unintentional then the decision to
leave things as they are is sheer poetry.
If it is meant to sound off-key then it is genius. Beginning with a funky guitar riff, I Love An
Eyesore (LBJ ’60) ascends into a punk disco (yes, it does exist) melange about
Lyndon Johnson’s firm belief that he would be successful in the 1960 Democratic
nomination because it ‘was his turn’.
Rosemary
references the ‘lost’ Kennedy who was born with severe intellectual
difficulties and was given a disastrous frontal lobotomy in 1941 at the age of
23 with the consent of her Father. Dying
in 2005, she remained out of public view for almost all her life.
Inauguration
meanders along with newsreel soundbytes until an almighty crash (maybe to
simulate gun shot?) which makes the semi-instrumental a quite brilliant piece of
music, and Bobby details the brother’s reaction to the assassination of JFK.
Kennedy is
often brilliantly disjointed which somehow coheres itself to create an album
that is deserved of wide recognition.
Album closer Nixon ’68 delves into New Romantic dance with the same
rebellious attitude that makes Mark Stewart and The Pop Group the phenomena
that they are.
Keep an eye
on Extradition Order.
8.5/10
Links
Jezusfactory Records
Extradition Order website
Extradition Order on Twitter
Extradition Order on Facebook
Thrashing Doves on hiapop Blog
Mark Stewart on hiapop Blog
The Pop Group on hiapop Blog
Published on Loduer Than War 13/05/15 - here
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