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Release Date: 10 April 2026
Label: Gare Du Nord
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 619091684589
Genres: Pop Alternative
Description
East London duo Bobby Zodiac and The Clairvoyants' phenomenologically driven second outing, !, is an album of big emotions and tiny pieces of bric-a-brac, conjuring a realm in which the outlines of Atlantis can be spied reflected in a thrift shop window.
Weaving between Jimmy Clairvoyant's harmony rich, electro driven, hook laden musical pallet Bobby Zodiac delivers lyrical expositions and exultations in an act of preposterous cosmic sincerity. For this is a world wherein Wham! meet John Cooper Clarke via Arthur C Clarke. A circus where Roxy Music bunk off art school and Lawrence drinks double espresso, Sleaford Mods sweeten up, Tim Ten Yen is his generation's Englebert Humperdink, and the Magic Circle have replaced rock 'n' roll.
! revs into gear with the rabble rousing, Sparks informed, Top-30-chart mockery of 'Straight to the Top', while the Eric von Daniken / Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds love child that is 'Egyptians' sets the tone with its prismatically shattered vocal and brain burned lyric. 'Command to Look' tips the hat to controversial '40s photographer William Mortinson in an ultra-submissive love song swathed in Shaftesque guitar rhythms and KLF beats, until crooning pedal steel sweeps into 'Astral Plane's' tale of trans-dimensional romance and alternate-reality geography. 'It takes guts to be kind!' declares Zodiac in shell shocked Smithsonian paraphrase, amidst the debris of UFOs, yetis, ghosts and tartan slippers, as compassion and spontaneous combustion hold sway in !'s lighters-aloft centre piece, 'Burning Light'. 'Vieni Sui Mas' provides an interlude of accordion and tarot card reading before the vocodered beauty and aquatic chug of 'Atlantis', surfaces in a wave of Beach Boys-esque key modulation and Kraftwerkian utopianism, had the Dusseldorf boys swapped cycling for mythology and double dosing. !'s deepest cut, 'Cro-Magnum', stomps a bluesy path across primitive topography in a funky collision between Side 2 of Tubular Bells and the Glitter Band, shadowed by Bobby Zodiac patron saint tribute 'John Dee', a la-la-la-rich, poptastic celebration of the great Elizabethan alchemist, atop the sweet chimes of an OMD gone-chintzy backing track. Parting moment, 'Epilogue', stands alone at a local bus stop to wave a well oiled surrealistic adieu. Shazam!
Tracklisting
Ben Reed
Dan O'Farrell & The Difference Engine
Bobby Zodiac and The Clairvoyants
Michael Warren
Gare Du Nord
Melanie Crew and Ross Palmer
Alex Marker & Ben Reed
Trent Miller
Bobby Zodiac and The Clairvoyants
