Scott Lavene - Milk City Sweethearts

Across these tracks, he sings with couplets that are instantly memorable and invite endless decoding, like the moment in Toffee Tickler where he sings 'Gravity had got us by the elbows, by the back of the knees', or the moment in his Prince-like love song 'You + Me' when he pulls back the curtain on the magic and menace of the everyday, declaring 'There's spit upon the pavement / There's secrets in the gutter'. It's an album where one minute he's indulging in hilarious dark comedy, holding up a funhouse mirror to our modern day freakshows ('Roll Up'), and the next he's breaking hearts with the luminous memories of young love in 'Ballad of Lynsey' ('We kissed on the bus, our brains fizzing with youth') and all the ways in which that young love can so quickly be destroyed.

1) Nigel ()
2) The First Time ()
3) The Earth Don't Spin ()
4) Lord of Citrus ()
5) The Toffee Tickler ()
6) The Ballad of Lunsey ()
7) U+ME=Everything ()
8) Worms ()
9) Walk Away ()
10) Roll Up ()
11) Say Hello to Zeus ()