Muziek - Humpty Dumpty Thing, A [Digipak]

Humpty Dumpty Thing, A [Digipak]

Nu slechts € 7,99 According to the press kit for Jim Bob's sixth solo album since the breakup of his early '90s college rock duo Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, A Humpty Dumpty Thing is a concept album about a dystopian future where state-mandated creativity forces a man with writer's block to either complete an 80,000-word novel or go to jail. Although the former James Robert Morrison has played with long-form ideas before, most notably on his rather brilliant concept album School, this ''concept'' sounds like a gag on Jim Bob's part. Indeed, on songs like the self-explanatory ''God's Blog,'' the dead serious protest ballad ''This Phoney War'' and the Kinks-like ''Pizza Boy'' (a tongue in cheek demand for mindless entertainment that allows the audience to stop thinking about the world's miseries for at least a moment), Jim Bob is more clearly than ever writing about his own time and place, an England in the grips of socio-political malaise. This may well be the least funny record Jim Bob has ever recorded, although his trademark flashes of humor creep even into fed-up rockers like ''Battling the Bottle (Fighting the Flab, At War with the World),'' and the album-closing ''From This Moment'' has an undeniable anthemic quality akin to the Who's ''Join Together'' as performed by twee Brit-pop pioneers the Television Personalities. More Billy Bragg than Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, A Humpty Dumpty Thing is a change in direction for Jim Bob, but a fruitful one. ~ Stewart Mason

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