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The Singing Loins - Stuff

Review by Rob Harris

The Loins seem amateur in the sense that their music is better suited to being played in back street pubs than actual releases. »

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the singing loins began having a laugh 20 years ago with two utterly live, mono, vinyl only lp releases on billy childish's gorgeously luddite record label, hangman. ever enduring outsiders, it's likely they are now the world's longest serving, truly amateur, original musical group. they're certainly the fucking best. stuff is the 11th offering of bare-knuckle folk from the medway delta. their song writing is steeped in the british & european traditions of punk, folk, music hall, character, chorus, cabaret, melodrama & buffoonery. perhaps their very creative strength is derived from ordinary lives of day jobs, families and mortgages. it's hypothetical, of course, but would morrissey, bono, albarn, mccartney, et al. have continued unabated in the face of such utter indifference?
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