MARSEILLE FIGS
the dirty canon
Release Date: 03/12/2007
'the dirty canon' is the figs' first full length album, featuring 12 new songs. produced in hamburg by polymath artist and pogues' founder jem finer and louisiana swamp-pop legend dm bob, and finished in london with brian o'shaughnessy (of 'screamadelica' fame), the dirty canon has big booming piledrivers, lost soul singalongs, flophouse ballads, epic screeching skronking songs, monkey grunts, thunder and lightning. the figs began in the spring of 1999 as a kind of experiment in ambitious ineptitude and pop form, with the idea of finding a common ground between the 'amateurism' of punk, folk and avant-garde music. they played a wide array of odd venues and events, and they spent a long time in the wilderness, writing songs and preaching to the choir. they have emerged with a highly idiosyncratic sound, a devoted cult in london and berlin, and an enormously varied arsenal of marvellous songs.
| CD code: fol1cd | 10.99 GBP |
