Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds are proud to unveil their latest release, Curse Of The Mirror Wicked. This EP is released in support of YoungMinds. There’s more information on the mini-site explaining why. If you enjoy the music, please consider making a donation to the charity.
Here’s one of the songs from the EP, performed last night at The Flowerpot in Kentish Town. A slightly more acoustic set than normal, with Bob away and Tom filling in on percussion duty. Check out that high-tech, rice-filled salt shaker and borrowed tambourine… no expense spared!
Download the EP here… let us know what you think x
Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds are pleased to offer their extended Crooked Family of fans a free download-only EP, Great Fears & Curious Predictions, containing five previously unreleased acoustic tracks.
The EP was recorded in mid-2008 and represents the sound of the band during a period of transition. The music is pared down to its bare essentials and the lyrics are more direct and less cryptic than in previous work.
“I am trying for simplicity,” explained Mr Crook in an interview around the same time. The results of this recording session were the starting point for the work that commenced on the band’s next album several months later.
Notably different in tone to the newer material released on The Lost Belongings EP in July of this year, they nevertheless offer a further indication of where the band is heading with its next major release.
Great Fears & Curious Predictions takes its place in the formal canon of the band’s discography. It’s download-only because it’s free, but artwork is included to allow fans to make their own CD copies if required.
The EP has its own mini-site, to distinguish it from the individual MP3 downloads that have appeared here in the past (and will continue to appear in future). Please pass on the link to your friends, spread the word. Enjoy.
(Right-click in Windows or ctrl-click on a Mac, then choose the save or download option depending on which browser you use… Leave us a comment if you get stuck and we’ll get you sorted out.)
Driven by such haste and random mania, because she was ill, too ill to spend the day with Wendy it seemed. So, she came to ‘work’ with ‘Daddy’, and, using an old digital camera, this is what we made. The camera records sixty-second at a time, which is just about her attention span. The song, if I remember rightly, was written during the winter months at her mother’s house. It was recorded days later, quite painlessly, thoughtlessly and I’ve never played it since. The overdubs were added immediately afterward, and will likely never be reconsidered. At the time, I had been suffering a bout of insomnia. Nothing serious, nothing harmful, just the golden light of Old Roads street lamps casting stark light across her mother’s bedroom and all that slept within it, all but me. Between midnight and 3am, every night, I would hear her footsteps from down the hall, padding hurriedly toward her mothers bed, and I would watch her creepy crawl under the covers, wrapping it around until there was no room left for me, which was fine, because it meant I didn’t have to persecute myself with notions of sleep anymore. When the day arrived I would try, at times, to discipline her, by teaching her right from wrong, but all the while fearful that she if learnt too much, the very spirit that drives her tantrums, her certain madness, her most precious part, might calm and cool off. Between the both of us there are mixed messages always. As my eyes glare over and voice draws in, deep and directed with precision, my lips twitch because a great big smile sits beneath the scornful expression painted over my face. I have always known she can see this, so, the elephant mask has come in handy. The mask itself was acquired from Wendy’s House and I am grateful to her that I was not prosecuted, or even asked to return my latest disguise. As for the title of this song, it is a phrase I had never come across before, until one night whilst I wandered her mother’s apartment like a ghost, an article from a magazine recently torn out and stuck to the wall in the kitchen caught my attention. It offered some advice – 20 ways to keep healthy and happy during the winter. ‘Kick Up The Leaves’ was the 13th piece of advice – it encouraged me to go outside, walk, get some fresh air. Eventually I took that advice (Scare Crows), but for now, as we get set for the release of the new EP, you can have this little treasure on me.
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