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Fika Recordings

Stanley Brinks And The Wave Pictures 'Berlin/It's Complicated'

£5.99

Fika Recordings

Stanley Brinks And The Wave Pictures 'Berlin/It's Complicated'

£5.99

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7' single - maroon coloured vinyl.

'sounds like Herman Dune when they were charmingly naïve and elegantly simple, a rock'n'roll strum with an easy rhythm, anthemic chorus and some memorable lyrics' Sounds XP

'This is nerve-jangling, hard-surfaced, soft-centred funny, shot through with sadness. The new Lost Boys, the Unlikliest Lads.' Rock n Reel

'The Wave Pictures'classy post-punkish bite is a great foil to Brinks'whimsy on these unhinged, loose-limbed story songs. Sometimes gin makes you win as much as sin.' NME

Berlin'is yet another anthemic Brinks sing-along. Its airy ambivalence celebrates both the freedom and the ensuing pressures of his beloved adoptive hometown. It's the second single taken from My Ass'. Stanley Brinks is joined by The Wave Pictures for their new record My Ass', the follow up to last year's Gin', and their fourth album together.

After Gin'Brinks wasted no time in taking The Wave Pictures straight back to the studio, bright and early, the morning after the final show of their tour, to ensure they lost none of the fire still burning in their hearts from the final night's drinks. Three playful days and twelve loose, jazzy, tracks later, with Brinks making salubrious use of his new penny-whistle and the assembled studio choir of friends hanging out, embraced into the recordings, he had his camel, My Ass'.

Stanley Brinks was part of three piece indie-rock band, Herman Düne. After several albums and Peel sessions and after a decade of touring Europe, mostly with American songwriters such as Jeffrey Lewis, Calvin Johnson and early Arcade Fire he settled in Berlin. The early carnival music of Trinidad became a passion, and in the early 21st century he became the unquestioned master of European calypso.

Under this moniker he has recorded more than 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Antifolk scene on several occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures.