The Voluntary Butler Scheme - Honey In The Gravel Mixture
(Split Records)
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| The Voluntary Butler Scheme - Honey In The Gravel Mixture |
Release Date: 17th March 2014
Normally solo artists go for a
title that is shorter than their full name like Prince or Shakira or Beyonce or
Pele. Technically one of those is a footballer but what the hey. My point is
that the monosyllabically named Rob Jones has inexplicably gone for The
Voluntary Butler Scheme as his stage name which makes nobody's life any easier
and means I have to type more than if he'd just stuck with Rob Jones. Or I
could just stop bitching and get on with the review. 'Honey In The Gravel
Mixture' is the next single from the soloist and it is an absolutely wondrous
piece of jaunty, brass based indie-pop fun. This is like Badly Drawn Boy
singing on a Divine Comedy penned tune that is based on some incidental music
from one of the original Herbie films - not the Lohan abominations. A teenage
me would have absolutely lapped this up in the mid 90s purely for the sense of
fun and obscurity, much the same as I swooned over Out Of My Hair for a couple
of years. I'm intrigued to hear the album but The Voluntary Butler Scheme as,
based on the two singles I have heard so far, it could well be a masterpiece of
English pop songwriting .
More information: www.facebook.com/thevoluntarybutlerscheme
Live Dates:
27th March - The Islington, London