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Jack Penate - Everything Is New
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A 'reboot'. That's the name given to TV shows which take the basic elements of an old brand, and rebuild it in a whole new image. Take Battlestar Galactica for instance - in the '70s, a cheesy sci-fi show starring Face from The A-Team. Rebooted, it was turned into a richly complex socio and political drama which just happened to be set in space. A reboot is what seems to have happened to Jack Peñate. When he first appeared in 2006 he was unfortunate enough to be lumped into the LDN scene, just as the press were tiring of it, and he wasn't helped by a debut album, Matinee, which was notable only for its mediocrity. He also had a really annoying little dance that frankly did him no favours whatsoever. So it's safe to say that 2009 was not desperately awaiting a Jack Peñate comeback. Yet the aptly titled Everything Is New is one of the year's biggest and best surprises. Out goes the overtly frenetic pace, the over-reliance on rockabilly and dropped aitches and Mockney vocals. In comes a sumptuous new synth-led sound, a big, epic production from Paul Epworth and an album full of euphoric pop songs....full text |
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A testament to the power of having nothing to lose, the second album from south Londoner Peñate is one of 2009's more pleasant surprises. Few would have bet on the singer-songwriter doing anything but struggle after his brief, unsatisfactory spell in the limelight two years ago. The glorified busking that filled his slight debut album Matinee did little to dispel the view that, being the grandson of Gormenghast author Mervyn Peake and a product of private schooling, Peñate was just another upper-middle-class indie kid on the make, a well-spoken, fashionably dressed arriviste. He was even mocked by anonymous comedy track and online sensation LDN is a Victim, which gave a shout-out to "Jack Peñate and his public school rock'n'roll crew". (An inverse snob's anthem, the song also took pot shots at Lily Allen and Kate Nash.) Jack Penate Everything is New (XL) £10.76 He has responded by junking his previous incarnation, finding a sympathetic producer in Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Maxïmo Park) and re-emerging with an album of good-natured, more-ish dance-pop, its multi-layered sound so unexpected that Matinee now seems like the work of someone else entirely. Once noted for his strange knock-kneed dance moves, Peñate has suddenly found a sense of rhythm; recent single Today's Tonight merges Afrobeat and house music, while Give Yourself Away piles on the samba drums and squalling guitars, suggesting recent discovery of the Santana...full text |
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A testament to the power of having nothing to lose, the second album from south Londoner Peñate is one of 2009's more pleasant surprises. Few would have bet on the singer-songwriter doing anything but struggle after his brief, unsatisfactory spell in the limelight two years ago. The glorified busking that filled his slight debut album Matinee did little to dispel the view that, being the grandson of Gormenghast author Mervyn Peake and a product of private schooling, Peñate was just another upper-middle-class indie kid on the make, a well-spoken, fashionably dressed arriviste. He was even mocked by anonymous comedy track and online sensation LDN is a Victim, which gave a shout-out to "Jack Peñate and his public school rock'n'roll crew". (An inverse snob's anthem, the song also took pot shots at Lily Allen and Kate Nash.) Jack Penate Everything is New (XL) £10.76 He has responded by junking his previous incarnation, finding a sympathetic producer in Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Maxïmo Park) and re-emerging with an album of good-natured, more-ish dance-pop, its multi-layered sound so unexpected that Matinee now seems like the work of someone else entirely. Once noted for his strange knock-kneed dance moves, Peñate has suddenly found a sense of rhythm; recent single Today's Tonight merges Afrobeat and house music, while Give Yourself Away piles on the samba drums and squalling guitars, suggesting recent discovery of the Santana...full text |
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It says something about the musical climate that consternation can be caused by an artist making an album markedly different to its predecessor. Perhaps it's something to do with the long shadow cast by Oasis's continued success, which suggests that a rock band's career should ideally be a kind of forced march: you trudge doggedly along a fixed route and any unexpected deviation is punished by a public too thick to cope with change. So it was that the Horrors' recent second album was greeted with astonishment, partly because the Horrors had actually survived their own hype to make a second album, but mostly because it didn't sound like their debut: here instead was a Krautrock- and electronica-influenced delight, its pleasures alloyed only by the terrifying thought that its more lovelorn numbers might have been inspired by Peaches Geldof. In truth, however, the Horrors' progression wasn't that surprising. Whatever you might have thought of their initial shouty goth-garage incarnation, it was clearly born out of esoteric musical tastes: you don't form a band that sounds like the Birthday Party sticking Screaming Lord Sutch's head in a cement mixer because a focus group has reported that's the kind of thing that will prise the all-important Radio 2 demographic away from their Jason Mraz albums....full text |
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