Jack Penate - Matinée reviews
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| Musicomh |
Jack Peñate has been a busy boy. He quit his degree in Classics at UCL when it became clear that music was his calling and he signed on with XL Recordings. One year on and he has toured the country, danced his socks off through the festival season, been jogging for his music videos and his ska fuelled, high energy singles have received plenty of airplay. So with the release of his debut album Matinee I'm not sure when he's going to be able to enjoy all of this success!...full text |
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| Virginmedia |
| In the po-faced and posing world of indie pop, Jack Peñate cuts a refreshing figure. The grandson of writer/poet Mervyn Peake is a smiling, check-shirted, rockabilly-loving ball of energy, seemingly transported back from the Fifties in a time machine designed by Bill Haley. All skiffle guitar boogies and runaway train rhythms, the 23 year-old Londoner adds wide-eyed confessionals and sing-along choruses that provide an innocent contrast to his contemporaries: the sass of Lily Allen, say, or the street-wise swagger of Jamie T....full text |
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| Manchestereveningnews |
LUMPED in with the London mob of Kate Nash et al, and lampooned in the titterworthy MySpace spoof LDN Is A Victim even before we had heard his debut album, Jack Peñate was in danger of suffering the backlash before even tasting the fame.
All of which cynicism evaporates when you hear what is a disarmingly fresh and imaginative piece of pure pop music....full text |
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