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Language of Prairie Dogs/ The Loves
Double B-side split single Brown Dwarf Records 7”

Article written by Ged M - Dec 12, 2010

Man alive! I think I’ve just heard the greatest Christmas single of all time. Christmas isn’t the time of goodwill to all men – not judging by the pools of regurgitated turkey and spilt WKD, the fighting and the drunken fumbles that give your colleagues so much to gossip about over the next year. Yet who’s gonna be big enough to say bah humbug and fuck the lot of youse this Christmas? Step forward Language of Prairie Dogs, who have finally got round to issuing ‘Lone Giant’ on vinyl (first released in 2008). This is wobbly lo-fi outsider rock’n’roll, with shades of Hazel Adkins and Johnny Cash and a hint of Lux Interior. Inspired by the Shining, it’s a plea for solitude (“because I hate everyone”) and ends on the majestic repeated refrain: “in my giant penis”. Forget the X-Factor and 4’33” and make this record number one this christmas.

This is, of course, a double-B side, backed with the wonderful seasonal misanthrophy of ‘Motherfuckers’ by our old pals The Loves. It’s quite 70s pop, even a little Eltonic, as Simon at the piano, backed by the sha-la-la-ing of his band, bitterly denounces the activities of his enemies and concludes: “hopefully they’ll die in screaming pain”. It’s brilliant black humour and a reminder that “santa” is just an anagram of “satan”.

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/prairiedogs
http://prairiedogs.bandcamp.com/
http://www.myspace.com/lovetheloves