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Nikki Sudden & The Jacobites
Dead Men Tell No Tales
New Wave Post Punk 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' takes a strippeddown turn with plaintive lyrical confessions as pretty as they are prescient summoning Syd Barrett's wild spirit through a sA#ance of simple reverb burbles and acoustic incantations Front andcenter vocals recounting love loss and death's lurking presence are presented against airy guitar shimmer in a demented yin and yang seemingly forecasting the scarf swathed underground dandy man's abrupt fall nearly 20 years later In the midst of such weighty tomes are less downtrodden peeks into the studio where Sudden and his Jacobites are caught on tape in a few joyful fits and starts adding another complex layer to this celebrated postpunk In founding Swell Maps the postpunk prefacing Birmingham artsnots Nikki Sudden and his drumming brother Epic Soundtracks charted new territory for racket and corrosive guitar But after folding Swell Maps at the dawn of the '80s Nikki Sudden plowed through another decade's worth of terrifically fertile ground Drawing on his devotion to the Rolling Stones and T Rex alongside guitarist Dave Kusworth as Jacobites plus a cheekily named cohort of British sidemen Nikki Sudden cut a string of raw inspired rock 'n' roll records etched with double edged travel melancholia and hardbitten punk dejection