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Extradition Order’s “American Prometheus” album is a co-release between five labels: Gare Du Nord, Blang, Jezus Factory, Helen Llewellyn Product 19, and I Blame The Parents.
“A Northern Soul album about the atomic bomb” is how the band have referred to it during its creation – a great tagline….maybe that’s all you need to read…..but of course it’s not quite as simple as that.
After their astute gothic indie dissection of the Kennedy dynasty on their previous album, EO’s obsession with US politics and history turns to the life and career of J Robert Oppenheimer around the Manhattan Project and the development of the first A-bomb.
The songs cover the science a little, but also Oppenheimer’s private and political life and legacy – the album concludes with the reminder that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times but never won it.
The album is dedicated to EO founder member Nick Boardman who sadly passed away in 2018 but whose bass hooks and singing run through this record at its foundations.
It’s in tribute to Nick that all five labels who have been involved in previous Extradition Order releases have joined forces to co-release and co-promote this album.
FABULOUS FEATURE PIECE IN TOWER RECORDS
“Comes kissed with that much loved skittishness of old, though here honed delightfully with an up close in your face vibrancy whose funkstruck soulful hiccuping hip swerve is acutely cut from the same art pop template that graced those early Talking Heads and Modern Lovers platters. Add into that palette a transfusion of the Sinatras and Fire Engines’ contortionist pop, some keenly fused moments of classic foot flapping Two Tone-ism and a smidgen of the Dexy’s ‘searching for the young soul rebels’ and you have yourself a neat hysteria fuelled hotpot of infectious groove.” – LOSING TODAY
“Fans of the B52’s and Gang Of Four look no further” – THE STRANGE BREW
Excellent interview with Antifolk UK
Track by Track Run Down of the album from Alastair in God Is In The TV
The Holy Crap Podcast really get inside the record, listen from 12 minutes in
“Very good indeed” – Gideon Coe BBC6 Music
Gideon Coe plays ‘No Nobel’ and generally bigs up the album, scroll to 1.50
Massive in New Zealand, you can hear ‘A New Set Of Rules’ in this New Zealand podcast
Free download of the song ‘New Set Of Rules’ at Joyzine
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