Fun and feisty solo debut from former Supergrass man Danny Goffey
With his former bandmate Gaz Coombes just nominated for the Mercury Prize, this debut solo offering from Danny Goffey of Supergrass arrives at a good time. It’s an instantly likeable and infectious pop collection that’s half impish Blur b-side and half Ian Dury bloke rock.
Governed by a slapdash and slapstick electro pop approach, there are traces of Goffey’s old band on the buzzsaw guitars of Trials Of A Modern Man, Episode recalls one of Graham Coxon’s solo forays, while Race Of Life takes nothing less than a sperm’s eye view of the moment of conception.
It’s not all throwaway antics; Goffey reveals a real way with a Beatles pastiche on the lovely Alfie Loves The Birds. Take Your Jacket Off and Get Into It is superior geezer pop.
Alan Corr
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