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Turn that bloody racket down!

by Sir Robert Orange Peel

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Gavin Hellyer Always of interest are Sir Robert's releases, and this new album continues the tradition. Favorite track: The Spiral 19.
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Rapido 04:16
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Scammer 04:17
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I've started so I'll finish 03:09
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Tomber en toi 03:07
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Turn that bloody racket down! 03:15
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Pigs 02:49
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1973 04:09
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I'm coming for you 02:28
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Ravers 03:07
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The Spiral 19 03:29
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Another LP from the wonderful Metal Postcard Records; this label releases so much wonderful music that is wrongly ignored. I am here to put that right.

This LP is a fine example; any LP that starts off with a wonderful farting synth and proceeds to erupt into a fury of lo fi funk before going on to a sample of telephone scammers over a slow drumbeat (slow very funny and very strange) is what the world is crying out for; music that deals with everyday life but with a dark smile on its face.

Who else would take a 70s sample of Mastermind the TV quiz show, when the persons specialist subject was the Sex Pistols, and just put a simple drumbeat behind it?!! As I have already said, insane but brilliant, the whole LP carries on in a similar vein and conjurers up both feelings for the nostalgic days of the past and the horrors of the world today.

I will not go into the subjects of all the tracks, as I do not want to spoil this wonderful eccentric dance record for you. GO AND DOWNLOAD IT AND CHEER YOURSELF UP!

Words: Brian ‘Shea’ Bordello


'Every track is an absolute gem!' ... Metal Postcard Records



PREVIOUS REVIEWS OF SIR ROBERT

2018

Recommended by Brian Bordello, this is Sir Robert Orange Peel with ‘put a bag over your head’ – an impish side swipe at the national squad just out through metal postcard, who at one time in the long distant past used to send us records for review.
LOSING TODAY

The once radical act of cutting up and putting together a bunch of sampled voices has, like most activities carried out in the name of popular music, become generally horribly stale and predictable. The genre, if it can be called that, desperately needs someone to raise it above its sterile condition, to recognise that the relative simplicity of the practice isn't an excuse simply to toss out any old junk and stick it on Soundcloud.

Sir Robert Orange Peel may well be that person. His second album, which follows with almost impertinent haste on the heels of his previous collection, is a triumph of wit and audacity that works so well fundamentally because, hidden beneath the sampled voices and intoxicating rhythms that have an appealing ring of The Normal or Fad Gadget about them, is a shrewdly deployed obsession.

If this is sometimes veiled by arch references and cultural in-jokes, then that just adds a further layer to a highly enjoyable listening process. You don't have to be familiar with The Fall to understand where the title of 'Europeans in Australia' comes from and you don't have to know anything about The Lovely Eggs to get the reference in 'Get your mince pies off my lovely eggs!' - a version of which first appeared in session in my Dandelion Radio show in January - and there's certainly a deep mine of enjoyment to be ploughed even among the uninitiated.
UNWASHED TERRITORIES

2017

The first thing we heard from Sir Robert Orange Peel was musical accompaniment to Mark E Smith reading out the classified football scores. Of course we were listening.

Now comes a debut release on the ever-interesting Metal Postcards label. The 6-track EP/mini-album is the unimaginatively-titled Sir Robert Orange Peel volume 1, but that’s perhaps because all the mental effort has gone into creating the sound. We feature Deep Water here, a track that starts a bit like Giorgio Moroder, but underpinned by a ramble about playing gigs in Somerset and how kebab shops in London stay open beyond half past ten.
Utterly unique and quite compelling.
BOOK OF FLIES

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released February 1, 2019

Big thanks to Martin Holmes from Orange Bomb for his vocals and lyrics on '1973'

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Sir Robert Orange Peel London, UK

The occasional guitar, samples and cheap electronics make up the truly unique sound of U.K based Sir Robert Orange Peel!
Music held together by a great sense of deprecating humour.
"Sounds nothing like the Sleaford Mods.but in there is that same fuck you i'll do it "how i like" aesthetic"
British music isn't dead it's just hiding under the bedcovers.
Sir Robert is a little more succinct ! ... more

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