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- Date Released: May 19, 2009
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: Rough Trade / Beggars Group
Revisiting old territory with a wiser head
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We Say...
Familiar motifs abound on Cocker's second solo album, recorded as close to live as possible in the studio. The sound, as you might expect from a Steve Albini production, recalls the more abrasive art-rock elements of Pulp's This Is Hardcore — most notably on the title track, "Homewrecker!" and "Pilchard." However, much of the lyrical subject matter is closer to the kitchen-sink dramas of Different Class; "Leftovers," with its recollections of meeting an academically gifted girl in a museum, even comes across as a knowing parody of "Common People".
This being Cocker, though, the tales of everyday folk contain a few twists, be it the minimum-wage sex worker of "Angela" (sonically, a nod to the power pop of The Knack's "My Sharona") or the reluctant lover of "I Never Said I Was Deep," a widescreen ballad that owes a debt to sometime Cocker collaborator Richard Hawley. The epic closer "You're In My Eyes" is a movie in itself, a middle-aged Jarvis ruminating on the provincial discotheques of his youth and assessing his place in the world. Further Complications is rough-hewn in parts, but it brims with the wit and articulacy we've come to expect from one of the UK's most reliable singer-songwriters. -
They Say...
Perhaps it was inevitable that Jarvis Cocker would find no peace in domesticity. It may have treated him well for a brief period, resulting in the quite brilliant mature pop of his 2006 solo debut, but no other pop star has been as singularly sex-obsessed as Jarvis, so it was just a matter of time before his attentions wandered elsewhere...and so they have on his wildly depraved second album, Further Complications. Right from the start with the thumping "Angela," Jarvis has flesh on the mind, just as he did during the days of His 'n' Hers with its songs about sisters, virginity, and fetishes, but where those songs were underscored by the vague melancholy of somebody who has only glimpsed his fantasy and frets that he will never see it again, the songs here pulsate with perversion, a middle-aged man making damn sure that he's going to get with a tight 23-year-old body yet again; it's the sound of a fetishist turned sexual omnivore. Fittingly, the sound of the record is completely changed, with only the closing "You're in My Eyes (Discosong)" echoing back to the louche, languid urban fantasies of "Deep Fried in Kelvin." The rest is all gnarled, ugly hard rock, dredging up ghosts of the Stooges and the Spiders from Mars, dressing them in stylish second-hand clothes that are razored to ribbons by Steve Albini's typically unflinching production. Under his cold glare, all the madness of Further Complications is pushed right to the surface -- all the stuttering, slashing guitars, Steve Mackey's wailing sax, Jarvis' obsessive, compulsive carnality. If he has any regrets leaving the settled bohemian pop professor of Jarvis behind, it only surfaces on "Slush," a dirgelike meditation on global warming overshadowed by the hedonistic riot of Further Complications at large, a record that does its best to live up to Cocker's "never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow" proclamation. He's denied his id for too long, so the dam bursts here and it's impossible not to happily wallow in the flood of filth unleashed by Further Complications.
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“Further Complications." |
3:17 |
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Angela |
2:56 |
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Pilchard |
4:02 |
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Leftovers |
6:06 |
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I Never Said I Was Deep |
4:44 |
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Homewrecker! |
3:18 |
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| 07. | |
Hold Still |
3:37 |
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Fuckingsong |
3:00 |
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Caucasian Blues |
3:09 |
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Slush |
6:28 |
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You’re In My Eyes (Discosong) |
8:45 |
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11 Total Tracks, 49:22 Total Length
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Credits
- Yvonne Gage - Choir, Chorus // Steve Albini - Engineer // Steve Albini - Mastering // Steve Albini - Mixing // Jarvis Cocker - Synthesizer // Jarvis Cocker - Mandolin // Jarvis Cocker - Vocals // Jarvis Cocker - Bells // Jarvis Cocker - Handclapping // Jarvis Cocker - Mixing // Jarvis Cocker - Choir Arrangement // Jarvis Cocker - Instrumentation // Jarvis Cocker - Foot Stomping // Steve MacKay - Saxophone // Steve MacKay - Soloist // Jason Moody - Choir, Chorus // Simon Stafford - Synthesizer // Simon Stafford - Guitar // Simon Stafford - Keyboards // Simon Stafford - Recorder // Simon Stafford - Vocals (Background) // Simon Stafford - Soloist // Richard Flack - Mixing // Richard Hawley - Lap Steel Guitar // Jeremy Lemos - Choir, Chorus // Jonathan Berry - Choir, Chorus // Martin Craft - Guitar // Martin Craft - Piano // Martin Craft - Keyboards // Martin Craft - Recorder // Martin Craft - Vocals (Background) // Martin Craft - Choir, Chorus // Martin Craft - Handclapping // Martin Craft - Foot Stomping // Martin Craft - Vox Continental // Ross Orton - Drums // Ross Orton - Tympani [Timpani] // Nick Broste - Horn Section // Matt Jordan - Choir, Chorus // Jason Michael Ward - Mastering // Steve Mackey - Bass // Steve Mackey - Mixing // Rachel Ries - Choir, Chorus // Paul VonMertens - Horn Arrangements // Paul VonMertens - Horn Section // Monika Bukowska - Choir, Chorus // Mary Lattimore - Harp // Daniel Knox - Vocals (Background) // Daniel Knox - Choir, Chorus
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