Luke Haines - The Oliver Twist Manifesto (CD)

Follow-up to the Christie Malry's Own Double Entry soundtrack album comes more poison pop from the ex-Auteurs & Black Box Recorder main man. The Oliver Twist Conspiracy (subtitled, Or What is Wrong With Popular Culture) highlights Haines distinctive songwriting & is yet more splendid stuff, cast in the same characteristic Haines-ian mode of shabby glamour & twisted tunefulness that we've come to expect from the self-styled Curmudgeon Of Pop. Arrogantly wonderful & wonderfully arrogant. 2001. EMi.