Cemetery Lifestyle by BC Camplight

And the public seems to be catching up with BC Camplight, just the five albums in, as it's his first to enter the U.K. Album Charts. It's easy to see why. It’s hook-laden pop sensibilities shine through from the start. “This afternoon I thought about Buckfast… ..and space, and danced around my kitchen singing Ace Of Base”, is the opening line to the opening track I Only Drink When I'm Drunk and this starts the onslaught of clever, smile- provoking, quotable lyrics that permutate the whole record. The most unorthodox track follows next and the mock stand-up spoken word first portion of the longest piece Ghosthunting, is worth the album price alone. The track sees his dark humorous side peek through the gloom, alluding (not for the only time on the record) to the death of his father, whilst mentioning Rachel Riley, The Arndale Center, Tame Impala and his pet cat, whilst conjuring up feelings of both The Fall and Divine Comedy in just one track. Cemetery Lifestyle sounds like Flaming Lips if Wayne Coyne had the slightest ounce of self-awareness and some funk in his CD library, and contains a (yet another) killer line about Nando’s and a banana suit.