9 Green Songs

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Cat No: XMR118CD

Release Date: 03 June 2016

Label: Xtra Mile Recordings Ltd. / Xtra Mile Recordings

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5056032303409

Genres: Rock Alternative

Description
Chris T-T returns with 9 Green Songs, his long-awaited follow-up to 2013's The Bear and a pseudo-sequel to his classic 2005 album 9 Red Songs.

9 Green Songs captures the vulnerable fury that bore the grassroots, folk-influenced approach of 9 Red Songs (an album that still resonates 10 years later), adding a modern Twitter feed tick-list of ideas, charged by the energy of his recent work with the Hoodrats. If anything T-T is becoming lyrically more radical. 'Love Me, I'm a Liberal' brutally indicts clicktivist sensibilities and "me, me" sensitivity of hipsters on social media, displaying their colours and doing not much else. 'Cutting A Longbow' recalls the spoken word live favourite 'M1 Song', in sound if not in content. Even then, this vocal diatribe is driven by pummelling percussion, giving it a rare menace. This contrasts wonderfully with 'A Garden On The Motorway'; an upbeat fairytale of green-fingered warfare on concrete commuting. But whether he's looking inward at his own faults or loudly gesturing at how we can all do better with less, T-T has put melodies to his disappointment, textures to our hypocrisy and, perhaps, a little hope in his hurt.

After two excellent, tonally different albums - the treatise on the heart and gorgeous wordplay of Love Is Not Rescue and the full-tilt tumultuous 90s alt-rock instrumentation with the Hoodrats, of The Bear - with 9 Green Songs we finally get more of what brought a lot of people to his music in the first place: Chris T-T stands up to shout loudly again, looks outwards, like a warm, terrible, friendly menace, who sees both dystopia and redemption on the horizon.

"The genius of Chris T-T's songwriting is his ability to humanise even the most outlandish conceits, until they seem instead like brilliant ideas nobody else would've come up with" - The Guardian

"Chris T-T is a man that we can trust with our lives. If he was standing for Mayor of London, I'd vote for him" - Steve Lamacq

For fans of:
Beans On Toast, Frank Turner, Billy Bragg, Ben Marwood.
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