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  Rummy b/w Reverse Psychiatry, Supermarket Sweep by Kill The Captains


Rummy b/w Reverse Psychiatry, Supermarket Sweep cover art

Artist: Kill The Captains
Title: Rummy b/w Reverse Psychiatry, Supermarket Sweep
Catalogue Number: Armellodie ARM09
Review Format: CD
Release Year: 2010



It's been a while, or at least I think it has, since anything from Sheffield based band Kill the Captains crossed through the threshold at Bluesbunny Towers. So the question is - have they still got their oddball charm?

The answer to that would be yes. Leading off this single is "Rummy", a song that stumbles about the room like a drunk guy trying to be cool with words of skewed wisdom spewing from his mouth as he hums a melody that sounds like a retro conflagration of Duran Duran and the Jesus and Mary Chain.

"Reverse Psychiatry" is a rather more controlled and melodic little ramble of a song that has a mid song change of mind then builds in a classic Britpop way to a serious guitar thrash. Just the thing to get you bouncing inside your sister's Alfa Romeo just before you crash it.

"Supermarket Sweep" doesn't have any references to Dale Winton - thank God - but instead delicately balances the insanity of the consumer behaviour against a neo folk accompaniment. Quite classy and clever really.


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Review Date: February 5 2010