Lupen Crook - 'Waiting For The Post-Man'
Dour as a set jawline and hard work like cleaning ovens, DIY merchant Mr Crook’s fourth is partly a cathartic exercise following the death of his friend and collaborator The MRS. Working through the aftermath, it reflects on gruelling sobriety (...
Album review: Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - The...
Oh Lord. How can you even ask me to do this? How can one do something as flippant as ascribe an arbitrary numerical value to the properties of something so comprehensively shrouded in darkness? OK, it behoves me to report that ‘ The Golden Year...
Album review: Lupen Crook - The Pros And Cons...
Poor old Lupen Crook . Despite toiling away for the past five years, the singer’s managed to resolutely bypass every musical ‘scene’; too weird for the folk fans, too folk for the urchins, his brand of bitter Larrikin Love -isms has always...
Lupen Crook And The Murderbirds
When ghoulish folk fiend Lupen Crook first crawled from the underworld he stalked alone on the brilliantly theatrical single ‘Halloween’, armed only with his shrill voice and an acoustic guitar. Then a faceless band of droogs almost ruined...
