![]() There’s a tangible suspense in this music. The album investigates the chasm between the utopian dream that underpinned the creation of Britain’s post-war new towns and the menacing, piss-stained reality that we ended up with, and it’s the Carpenter-ish influence that makes this record way more interesting than you might expect. It’s ironic that in his bio, Gordon Chapman-Fox, aka Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, murmurs disparagingly about the glut of ersatz John Carpenter soundtracks out there, since there’s more than a whiff of early eighties video-nasty soundtrack about Interim Report, March 1979. ![]() Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Interim Report, March 1979 Shall we crack on with a few recommendations? That haircut you gave yourself suits you. Hello again! You’re looking very well, I must say. ![]() So who really thought we wouldn’t be back here for more? It’s Bandcamp Friday and, as you well know, that means that Bandcamp waives their cut and everything you spend goes to your favourite artists, apart from the bit that PayPal takes so that a cadaverous billionaire with a funny, pasty-looking head can spaff it up against his rocket.
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