jamie lenman
muscle memory
Xtra Mile
best known for his work with reuben, this double album balances storming thrash-y punk with gentle, melodic tunes & marks a welcome return of a raconteur, wit & one of the best british songwriters of the last ten years.
to showcase the day & night / yin & yang / black & white aspect of the album, ‘muscle memory’ is split into two discs: cd1 brings together the heavier side of life. brutal riffs & intense vocals on songs such as ‘shower of scorn’, ‘the f*ck of it all’ & ‘fizzy blood’. cd2 shows jamie’s strength for melody & songwriting, from the beautiful ‘it’s hard to be a gentleman’ to the big band jazz of ‘pretty please’, to the intensely moving ‘saturday night’.
Tracklist
- CD1
- The Six Fingered Hand
- Fizzy Blood
- No News Is Good News
- One Of My Eyes Is A Clock
- Shower Of Scorn
- A Terrible Feeling
- The F*ck Of It All
- All The Things You Hate About Me, I Hate Them Too
- Gary, Indiana
- A Plague On Both Your Houses
- Muscle
- CD2
- Shotgun House
- i Ain't Your Boy
- It’s Hard To Be A Gentleman
- For God’s Sake
- Little Lives
- If You Have To Ask You’ll Never Know
- Pretty Please
- A Quiet Understanding
- Saturday Night
- A Day In The Life
- Memory