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  MOSHILP58Long Player  £18.00
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Tom Vek

Luck

Over the course of his decadelong career Tom Vek has forged a reputation as one of London's most enigmatic and exciting musicians Breaking on to the scene with the attitudespiked 'We Have Sound' 2005 Vek channelled his homegrown musical prowess into a bastion of midnoughties electronic punk rock rebellion His long awaited followup 'Leisure Seizure' 2011 was less raw but no less impactful Now mixing the expertise learned from both his newest offering 'Luck' is set to be Vek's biggest and most daring album release to date Drawing on the modern anxiety of finding your place in a world saturated by information 'Luck' plunges the personal to deliver tracks that are sincere angry and poignant 'Sherman Animals in the Jungle' a searing comment on our state of moral ambivalence inspired by Tom Wolfe's novel 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' delivers a bold chord sequence and a bassline of such grandiose proportions as to rival Kanye spliced with synth motifs reminiscent of the opening to 'Kiss' by Prince Angry funk for the lost generation compelled to head bang in unison to its intoxicating repetition 'Elsewhere Broke' is a rebel rousing march led by a more melodic vocal from Vek and the album's undisputed pop forerunner while 'Trying to Do Better' delivers a dreamlike cacophony of cymbal crashes and electronic accents of the likes of Sonic Youth Perhaps the most quintessential offering comes in the shape of Vek's open message to the Internet age Pushing your Luck a droning moody repetitive track that delivers that deadpan vocal over a bassline that builds to dancefloor proportions As ever Vek delivers an album that eludes straightforward definition The 'garage rock for the protools generation' as he puts it is alive and well only now it is met with the most ostentatious production and some of the biggest beats of Vek's career Just as you want to describe 'Luck' as the sardonic outpouring of a man articulating the disillusionment of a generation he throws the curve ball of 'The Girl You Wouldn't Leave for any Girl' an unwieldy title that sits gloriously at odds with the rest of the album Consisting of one repeated sentence a vocal and a guitar the pared down minimalist achievement artfully encapsulates an ageold story of love 'There's noise everywhere' Vek tells us but with enough force we might return to a place of truth 'Luck' is the magnificent offering from an artist who has achieved the rare feat of preserving the seduction of youthful rebellion and marrying it with experience It's big angry and impossible to ignore The LP format includes a download card specially designed by Tom Vek himself

Tracklist

• 1. How Am I Meant To Know
  2. Sherman (Animals In The Jungle)
  3. Broke
  4. Pushing Your Luck
  5. Ton Of Bricks
  6. Trying To Do Better
  7. The Girl You Wouldn't Leave For Any Other Girl
  8. A Mistake
  9. You'll Stay
  10. The Tongue Avoids The Teeth
  11. Let's Pray