Fox Pop

Sergeant Buzfuz to release seventh album Fox Pop . "That is what, I do believe, you call a pop tune" MARC RILEY, BBC 6 MUSIC // 'It's mental - in a good way! Absolutely hooked on it" IAN RANKIN // 'Absolutely brilliant' TOM ROBINSON, BBC 6 MUSIC // 'It's a peculiar record. I think I rather like it though' TOM RAVENSCROFT, BBC 6 MUSIC // Since writing the last Sergeant Buzfuz album, 2015's "Balloons For Thin Linda", songwriter Joe Murphy has lost both parents, got married, been a victim of a smear campaign (as a whistleblowing union rep), co-founded charity QQF (a theatre company for adults with special needs) and relocated to his native Sheffield. Joe has also continued to co-run Blang, the DIT* label he started in 2005 (including working on the first album from ex-Fall members Brix & The Extricated) and has worked part-time in special needs schools in London and Sheffield to fund the recording of "Fox Pop". "Balloons For Thin Linda" received positive press but life events got in the way of much live promotion. The band recruited Joss Cope on bass, Stu Crane on slide guitar and Polly MacLean on backing vocals and released the "Humble Pie" EP in 2017. The debut album from the new line-up is finally here. It's the seventh Buzfuz album. It's got tunes bursting out all over the place, lyrics from the head, heart and fist and is rich in variety with two-minute pop songs, ballads, post-punk, freakbeat and strands of the band's Celtic DNA. Opening track There's Idiots, Then There's Idiots With Money 'is about me imagining I'm attending one of those Mansion House dinners where the Chancellor gets summoned to report to the City.' Says Joe. It's a stomping working class anthem that quickly gets under the skin with intricately woven shuffling guitars and percussion that make way for a psychedelic flute solo. Second track Theresa McKee is a refreshing lively blast of pop peppered with mandolin and acoustic guitar, showing off the band's more folky roots with finesse. Other album highlights include Who Art In Seven Hills , a clever and humorous re-work of The Lord's Prayer replacing names and places with those of Joe's native Sheffield (a la Ian Dury's Bus Driver's Prayer). The interlude makes way for the jollity off-kilter harmonies of quirky Rare & Racy , a busker-esque jam about a second hand record/book shop in Sheffield which had to close when the Council, having to obey new Tory Government planning laws, approved the property owner's plans to turn the building into flats. Fill In The Blanks and Rear View Mirror are other great moments of raw and instantly familiar catchy classic punk on this album which celebrates real lives and real musicianship through the band's own unique lens. The album, with its Squeeze & Kinks like anti-folk chant singalongs and storytelling is a perfectly crafted antidote to chart pop, Brexit and the current state of the world. It's fun and meaningful and a constantly surprising delight from this band who are well sewn into the fabric of the UK music scene. Buzfuz have played three live 6 Music sessions for Marc Riley and Tom Robinson and had lots of radio support from Gideon Coe as well as press acclaim across the board including from the likes of NME who described them as Universally Charming . There will be full band shows and solo shows from Joe to come around the album release where you can rest assured Buzfuz will fill you up with Fox Pop . *DIT = do it thissen, when Yorkshire people do things themselves. Joe promotes his own gigs (Blang emerged from live nights he ran at London's now sadly defunct 12 Bar Club), runs his own label and started his own charity.

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