Музыка и песни Sergeant Buzfuz / Sergeant Buzfuz

Since writing the last Sergeant Buzfuz album, 2015's "Balloons For Thin Linda", songwriter Joe Murphy has lost both parents, got married, been a victim of a smear campaign (as a whistleblowing union rep), co-founded charity QQF (a theatre company for adults with special needs) and relocated to his native Sheffield. Joe has also continued to co-run Blang, the label he started in 2005 (including working on the first album from ex-Fall members Brix & The Extricated) and has worked part-time in special needs schools in London and Sheffield to fund the recording of "Fox Pop". It's the seventh Buzfuz album. It's got tunes bursting out all over the place, lyrics from the head, heart and fist and is rich in variety with two-minute pop songs, ballads, post-punk, freakbeat and strands of the band's Celtic DNA. Opening track 'There's Idiots, Then There's Idiots With Money' is a stomping working class anthem that quickly gets under the skin with intricately woven shuffling guitars and percussion that make way for a psychedelic flute solo. Second track 'Theresa McKee' is a refreshing lively blast of pop peppered with mandolin and acoustic guitar, showing off the band's more folky roots with finesse. The album, with its Squeeze & Kinks like anti-folk chant singalongs and storytelling is a perfectly crafted antidote to chart pop, Brexit and the current state of the world. It's fun and meaningful and a constantly surprising delight.

Go To The Devil And Shake Yourself" is the fifth Sergeant Buzfuz album. It chronicles the first fourteen centuries of the papacy. It started with songwriter Joe Murphy intending to tell a potted history of the papacy in a 5 minute song. He stopped when the song reached 7 minutes and the end of the first mil-lennium. Even then he didn't realise how many songs the story would stretch to. The next Buzfuz album will be completely pope-free. The one after that will return to the papal story Record Label: Blang Style: Independent