“The Male Pattern previews his satirical 'I Was Shot in the Heart!' narrative fiction album with 'The Television Watcher'”
Plucking songs from shifting ground and second-hand music shops: Wholesale Angel Market explores desolation, redemption, and the animal instincts lurking in the far corners of our rooms, while Darren Hayman adapts William Morris' 19th-century socialist chants into warm, fuzzy urban folk — recorded on Morris's own piano. Jack Hayter returns with his haggard, compulsive balladry — "Tom Waits and mates running amok in a second-hand music shop" — and l'anarchiste heureux unearths a "lost" 1977 chanson française album where a flat tyre becomes a meditation on freedom. Zane Alexander captures folk songs as they existed in passing — imperfect, immediate, and alive amid wind, birds, and evening air.
“The Male Pattern previews his satirical 'I Was Shot in the Heart!' narrative fiction album with 'The Television Watcher'”