Crisps, the forthcoming album by Getdown Services on Breakfast Records, promises a whistle-stop tour of the UK’s ghastliest features. Imagine a ghost train ride through the hells of middle England, or an academic study titled Normal Island: a Psychogeography. With a sound somewhere between new wave, The Fall-esque post-punk and what the label calls ‘apocalyptic disco’, the duo reintroduce us to all the favourites. Vampiric landlords, motorway laybys, or indeed the blight of gentrification, as captured with previous single ‘Cream of the Crop’. “If John Cooper Clarke’s ‘Evidently Chickentown’ conjured the end days through pictures of a tedious, ruined Britain,” as we wrote of the track in a preview, “then ‘Cream of the Crop’ offers a new vision of the non-future. A world polished to within an inch of its life and then polished a bit harder. A stage of capitalism so late they’ve stopped updating the time on the board.”
Latest single ‘Get Back Jamie’ feels like an escalation. As though, having shown us plenty of infernal minions, Getdown Services are cracking out the country’s higher demons. Namely the personification of suburbia himself, Big Jamie O. “Jamie Oliver is a celebrity that everyone knows but no one really likes,” as the band explain. “You never meet someone who goes, Oh I love Jamie Oliver. I was thinking about this once when I was watching Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals […] I had just been sacked and watching cooking shows had sort of taken the role of full time work. Jamie Oliver, and anything with his stamp on it, is by far the worst in that world. I became quite genuinely angry with Jamie Oliver for a bit, and I thought that was a funny thing to write about.”
Crisps is out on the 31st October via Breakfast Records and you can pre-order it now.
