Julian Cope – Friar Tuck – CD

The Prince of Fried has brung forth 12 brand new humdingers: all hummable and lyrically compelling and replete with wah-acoustic guitars and beautiful orchestrations of Mellotron 400 from Liverpool’s Blondest. So inhale the garage fuzz dub of ‘R in the Hood’; the mantric powerdrive of ‘Four Jehovahs in a Volvo Estate’; the sentimental Pete Burns lamentations of ‘In Spungent Mansions’… and who could resist the affectionate micro-trolling of ‘Will Sergeant’s Blues’? Stay cosy, defiant and edgy this autumn with these 12 fruits of FRIAR TUCK.

1 Too Freud to Rock ‘N’ Roll Too Jung to Die
2 You Gotta Keep Your Halfwits About You
3 Four Jehovahs in a Volvo Estate
4 The Dogshow Must Go On
5 1066 & All That
6 In Spungent Mansions
7 Me and the Jews
8 A Shipwrecked Song
9 Sol Invicto
10 R. In the Hood
11 Done Myself a Mischief
12 Will Sergeant’s Blues