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This one has a weird quiet/loud sound to it, a bit like Xiu Xiu or that song that Adam Sandler sings in The Wedding Singer about how he hates love. Ayre chugs away on muted chords and winges over it like a preteen Conor Oberst. It isn't very good. In fact, the most interesting thing about it are the lyrics. I'd like to think I've listened to enough hip-hop to be able to separate the man from the murder fantasy, but "my hands round your neck, your face turns blue" and "the blood's coming easy, now I squeeze it out" aren't doing much for Jeremy's "decent guy" case.
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Nope, not a space-funk take on Less Than Jake's seminal "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads", but another acoustic number. Helpfully, Jeremy describes this one as "about feeling a bit dead inside, slightly geeky and not really relating to people very well". Think of it as somewhere between Newton Faulkner and Skee-Lo, then. This one doesn't even do quiet/loud, just quiet/quiet and, once again, it's the lyrics that prove to be the biggest sell, as he cheerfully sings: "My girlfriend's nothing but a corpse". :( Jeremy."The Things We Do"
Sadly I can't really work out the lyrics to this one, as the engineer appears to have turned up the "Elliot Smith-iser" to 11. It's a fairly standard ballad musically, pretty much exactly what you'd imagine your maths teacher's music to sound like.There's some other songs on there, but I can't really think of anything interesting to say about them. Overall, it's a bit X Factor 28s and overs. The lyrics are maaaaaaaybe troubling at a stretch, but only really when you put them in context with what he's currently up to. Does it tell us anything about the man or his crime? Yes, but not a lot. All we know is that he takes himself quite seriously, is a bit lame and a bit desperate.Follow Clive on Twitter: @thugclive
