Servant have operated on the fringes of London’s sleaze-pop underground for so long now that it’s hard to know quite where their twisted take on life behind the twitching vintage curtains of bedsit-land will ever fit in. Long term fans, meeting in secret cabals city-wide, shrug resignedly at the prospect of seeing singer Dan Black on Top Of The Pops, much as Pulp fans must have done before the zeitgeist took an unexpected detour via Jarvis’ diaries. Yet ‘Orchestra’ is one more reminder of their macabre Smiths-via-Prince genius. "Meet me at the cinema/You can drive me in your car/Lie in the back and stare at the planes" sighs Dan, a man who could make a trip to Sainsburys to buy toilet fluid feel like something out of Gogol. Somewhere, in a galaxy far away, Coldplay is making millions running his own software company, Dido is a primary school teacher in Surrey and Servant are number one. We can but dream.
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