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The State Of ThingsReverend and The Makers |
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It’s been a hugely successful 2007 so far for Jon McClure, his debut single ‘Heavyweight Champion Of The World’ – a Top 10 mainstay and summer dancefloor anthem , sold out tours of the UK and to top it all off The Reverend, with his band The Makers, have just made 'The State Of Things' a truthful and hard hitting yet witty debut released through Wall Of Sound on 17th September. Working with heavyweight producer Jagz Kooner, one of the few producers able to reduce both indie alternative and traditional club dancefloors to a sweating, heaving mass, Jon set to work on an album that would break new ground and see beyond the four-piece format, in favour of a collaborative approach inspired by hip-hop. With storytelling from the folk tradition and beats from the clubs, this album would not belong to a genre, but to the people. A picture of modern Britain that reaches far beyond the kitchen sink, it's a world of picture postcard saucery, industrial paranoia, suburban scandal and global tension. A modern record for uncertain times. No two songs are the same; from the sleazy summer-pop of '18-30' to the workers' anthem 'The Machine' - featuring vocals from Alex Turner. And its themes run just as wide, from the way 'What The Milkman Saw's gossipy take on the parentage of a local strumpet's brood, to the way that 'Sundown On The Empire' puts no smaller a debate than the battle for the hearts and minds of young British Muslims beneath the apparent simplicity of a boy-meets-girl love story. "It's my duty as an artist to provide a dissenting voice, because there aren't any dissenting voices anymore are there?, I said to people I was going to make the best record ever. And I've made it." Now, the Reverend's going to tell you about THE STATE OF THINGS. |
