The Pre New – ‘Cathedral City Comedown’

When your latest project is deeply connected with two great bands of yore; World of Twist & Earl Brutus, there’s a bit more to prove than most. Luckily Jamie Fry and his new band of unmerry men are playing the same kind of glorious glam racket, it’s sneery, bilious, middle-aged and brilliant.

This track is a rally against big corporation masked by a love song for cheap cheese. Foxtons deservedly get a blast with the brilliant lyric “When Foxtons burns down and all the estate agents have drowned, everything sells for a pound”. Bung a surely illegal Roxy Music sample and ‘Pretty Vacant’ guitar riffs and you’ve got a track that will never become dull…and this is before the gorgeous dreamy ambient breakdown which is the most World of Twist sounding thing ever.

Chris Todd