Music review: Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - You Fat Bastard: An Anthology
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Music review: Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - You Fat Bastard: An Anthology
Release date: Out now
Format: Album
Genre: Pop/Electro/Punk
Our Rating: 4/5
This double album is an energetic offering of power pop that collects Carter USM’s top hits from a musical career spanning the last decade.
Their signature sound is punk-inspired rock and roll overlayed with catchy 80’s electro sounds. And as the album title suggests their songs are full of unapologetic lyrics about real life issues in the city.
With tracks such as ’And God Created Brixton’ the band stay faithful to their south London roots, and the gritty reality that comes with it. Lead singer ’Jim Bob’ and guitarist ’Fruitbat’ have never been afraid to burst the pop music bubble, making ’You Fat Bastard’ is a refreshing change and a definite eye-opener.
Review by Lucy Farmer, MyVillage
Press release:
Formed in 1988 by singer Jim ‘Jim Bob’ Morrison and guitarist Les ‘Fruitbat’ Carter, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine made their name with distinctive style of power pop, fusing samples, sequenced basses and drum machines with rock and roll guitars and clever lyrics name checking their south London roots and the social problems of inner city living in the early nineties.
In a career that spanned 10 years, Carter’s achievements included a number one album and many hit singles – the lyrics of which dealt with such unlikely pop themes as child abuse, corrupt landlords and AIDS. Their ferociously entertaining live shows have earned them the most dedicated fan followings in the wonderful world of alternative pop.
It's some achievement by any standards. Perhaps it's even more impressive when you consider that the band that started almost by accident.
Carter began when the much acclaimed if commercially unsuccessful jangle pop band Jamie Wednesday disintegrated. The bands songwriting team Jimbob and Fruitbat found themselves with a charity show at the London Astoria to play and no one left to play with. So they recorded some backing tapes, played the show as a duo, and realised that this arrangement worked rather well.
Jimbob and Fruitbat decided that their new act should be one hell of a lot noisier and more confrontational than Jamie Wednesday had been, and a new name was needed to go with the new attitude. They chose Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine because....well, let's just say that Fruitbat (real surname Carter) was leading an exciting and (ahem) energetic social life at the time …
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