there are times when it’s quite nice not to know what someone’s going on about. in full english breakfast’s world this is standard procedure. the meaningless becomes memorable. bizarre couplets morph into genuine pop moments. you start to smile. this carries on.

full english breakfast is essentially one-man musical maverick alvine spetz. spetz discovered music while studying at aberdeen university in the 80s. inspired by the fledgling indie sounds of edwyn collins, the fall, josef k and the pop group, he embarked on a journey that most press agents would have trouble making up - including recording with members of the shamen, dabbling with sufism and the tabloids hounding him as a result, burning everything he’s ever recorded (several times) and playing one gig. ever. in belgium.

finally there is an album at the end of it all, made with a helping hand from spork drummer ed lush and featuring eleven songs that bring to mind babybird, jazz butcher and beck.

as alvine puts it on ‘song for a nut’:

“i wanna do what’s right, i wanna sleep at night”

a not unreasonable request from a true english artpop eccentric.

“A highly eccentric but thoroughly engaging electronic/art-pop debut that aligns him with The Fall, Denim and Frank Zappa” Uncut

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