A+E

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Label: Transgressive Records
Release Date: 4th December

Another batch of Graham Coxon reissues and what a trip it's been going back to these records, spiky power pop one minute, Kinksian pop the next, picked folk another, post punk the next and each time absolutely slapping. 

Inspired by a particularly memorable post-gig night out in 2011, Graham's
eighth solo album A+E jerked to the nu-rave shapes and post-punk angles of
the wave of bands who'd later fall under the indie sleaze umbrella.

On tracks like the throbbing 'City Hall' and 'Meet And Drink And Pollinate''s robo-punk,
Graham and producer Ben Hillier drew a line from the present back to late '70s/early
'80s outliers Magazine, Wire and Cabaret Voltaire.
"My band had played a gig at the sadly no more Leeds Cockpit, and there was this
club night afterwards," remembers Graham. "Everything they were playing sounded
amazing. It was all new stuff, and the kids looked so cool. It made a really big
impression on me, and A+E was sort of based on what I thought I was hearing that
night. It didn't give a fuck - it was just riffs in your face and was very mischievous."

Advice / City Hall / What'll It Take / Meet and Drink and Pollinate / The
Truth / Seven Naked Valleys / Running for Your Life / Bah Singer / Knife in The Cast /
Ooh, Yeh Yeh