Thee MVPs announce new album Most Valuable Players, share "Gravesend Song"
Garage punks Thee MVPs have announced the release of new album Most Valuable Players.
Most Valuable Players is a compilation of "out of press 45 songs, rare-shelved cuts, and singles," made available together for the first time. To mark the announcement, the band are sharing "Gravesend Song", a track initially released via cassette on Fluffer Records' Shake A Fist Compilation - Vol 2. All twanging refrains and drawn-out laments, the track is an ode to familiar streets presented in characteristic rock and roll fashion.
"When I wrote this I listened to loads of Sleaford Mods whilst also signing on, so I felt in the right frame of mind to be bashing on where I grew up and still live today," frontman Charlie Wyatt descibes of the tracks influences. "I guess I wanted to be educational as well as cynical, so the lyrics try to be scathing as well as sincere in it's observations."
"Gravesend has been in a weird limbo for a few years..." he continues. "The high speed rail link and new builds sprung from becoming a more prominent commuter town make the town affluent, although judging by how most of the high street is boarded up and how rough a lot of people have it here you wouldn't think it."
"This is probably the only 'blues' song I'll ever write," he adds, "and make it sound half legit. It truly is a tough town and continues to be, but it's certainly made for some odd forms of inspiration."
Tracklist:
- Woman is a Danger Cat
- The Lurgy
- Lully Poo Face
- Don’t Feel Bad, Feel Rad
- A Song for Baron Willoughby
- Wandwaver
- Gravesend Song
- Edgar
- US Airways
- Sauna Song/January
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