This is John Andrew Frederick’s 911th (not really, but I have lost count of the actual number) album since the late 1980s with his The Black Watch project. Due to the consistency of his own personal genius and the brilliance of the ever-changing band personnel that he persuades to collaborate with him each time (this time including Rob Campanella (Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Tyde, The Warlocks) and Andy Creighton (The World Record, Parson Red Heads), he is ‘one of those’ artists that easily sidesteps issues of over-familiarity despite being so prolific.

This The Morning Papers Have Given Us The Vapours album continues such a trend. Initially, the post-punk meets jangle-pop of New Brooms Sweep Clean, What’s All This Then, and Much of a Muchness have the same sort of driven intensity that the recent Fontanarosa output provides, albeit augmented with his trademark underproduced vocals that force you to fight to cling onto his every word.

The dulcet edge to his jangled riffs continues with The Silent Boys inflected 80s guitar-pop of Sorry So Far, Almost Words, and Oh Do Shut Up, whereas the fuzz, reverb, and distortion announced in various degrees on There & Here and Two Different Ways are so perfectly imbued with a dirty, crunchy form of Echo and the Bunnymen cinematic.

Still one of the best the genre has to offer and probably always will be across his next eleventy-squillion albums!!!

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