HOME

REVIEWS

singles/downloads

Follow SXP on Twitter

SoundsXP Presents

Next show:

BAD FRIDAY!
Peluché,
Dead Coast,
Les Sueques,
Calva Louise,
Flights of Helios,
Videocean,
Dirty Blondes
+ SoundsXP DJs

The Windmill, Brixton
Good Friday, 14th April 2017
3pm till late

Buy tickets here

On Our iPod

Latest Forum Posts

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

Single/Download Review

Lupen Crook and the Murderbirds
The Lost Belongings EP Beast Reality Records

Article written by Ged M - Jul 21, 2009

Lupen Crook is an odd one. Though fully joined with his Murderbirds, he’s still a troubled and intense troubadour, his music filled with fear and disgust (he gives his address as “Dysunited Kingdom”). There’s something very poetic about him, part Pete Doherty, part Percy Bysshe Shelley, spitting out his words in Estuary English in songs that are part-skiffle, part-ballad, part-cabaret (‘Lest We Connect The Crooked Family’) or dabbling in folkatronica (‘Scare Crows’). The whole thing is DIY in spades: released on his own label, the cover is a Jackson-Pollacked wallpaper offcut, held together with a pitch black jigsaw piece. The effect is individual, resolutely uncommercial and a psychologist’s dream. Mr Crook has a love/hate relationship with listeners, his uncompromising stance making it “hate” for a lot of people, though his general disconnect with the “real” world makes me want to embrace him. But then I’m an odd one too.

Links:
http://www.lupencrookandthemurderbirds.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/lupencrook

LATEST FEATURES

Remembering the Radio Trent Rock Show

LATEST NEWS

Wedding Present headline Refugee Rock benefit

Blitzen Trappen visualise sound of new album

Extended Katsenjamming

Yuck Spit Out New Album Update, Share First Track

Need Replacements For Your Old Vinyl? Alt-Rock Pioneers' Reissues Coming Soon

Music & Booze At Old Spitafields Independent Music Market This Saturday

Micachu and The Shapes New Album Could Be Good... Or Bad

Public Image Ltd.'s New Album Can Only Mean Trouble (And Rants About Plumbers...)

Alive & On Fire: The Dead Weather Announce First Album In Five Years

A Spectre From The Past With Veruca Salt's New LP? Listen In Full!

LATEST FREE MP3s

Foxtails Brigade "Far Away and Long Ago"

North By North "Pistoletta"

Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen "Nach dem Spiel"

Theatre Royal "The Days Grow Hotter"

Oliver Gottwald "Freunde fürs Leben"

Heart/Dancer "Outro"

Clowwns "Idiot Bouncing"

Double Denim "Wide Open"

Flout "Rainchecks"

The Scenes "City Of White Blankets"

© Sounds XP

Design by Darren O'Connor and Adam Walker