Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine 'I Blame the Government' (Cooking Vinyl) |
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The world is crap. It�s official. We live in a society built on a foundation of anti-heroes and false pretences, veiled in a shroud of hypocrisy. But worry ye not, for Carter are here to save us all. They�re here to drag us away from the doldrums of dreary day to day living, to bring believers together, to put a smile on our faces and to verbally batter those guilty of exploiting our innocent souls.� And now cast your mind forward five years to the present day. How things change. � |
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As we sit in the company of Jim Bob with a cup of tea and biscuits, listening to him talk us through his thoughts with a nice slide-show and dimmed lights, we can only just catch the faintest glimmer of the Jim Bob of old who used to preach to us as if his head were about to explode under the sheer pressure of his passion and creativity. Today, on their final recorded outing following their split last August, Carter are a much mellower affair.� That doesn�t mean to say that this album doesn�t have its moments. �Sunshine� is very almost the perfect pop song that its title promises, �Psycho Bill� is as raucous as ever and �Citizen�s Band Radio� is a riot. It�s just that their passion and interest seems to have evaporated somewhat. It�s almost as if the songs aren�t quite finished yet. These could be the demos for �Post Historic Monsters� for all we know.� |
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And as this, the final Carter USM album ever, winds down to a close, �Girls Can Keep A Secret�, the emotional piano led final number, serves as the most fittingly dramatic climax to a genre-defining, fashion-defying pop career that did, for a while at least, change people�s lives.� Right now though you can�t help but hope that they were saving the best stuff for the encore. It�s a shame then that they�ve already left the building. Truth is though, with every listen this CD attaches itself to you like a leech, sucking harder and harder by the day until it's living in your stream of conciousness and hounds your every living moment. You see, this album is a pop classic even if it does take a while to bloom. It's coming from a different angle, it may be approaching different emotions and newer feelings, but deep down it's still the same Carter we all know and love. Give it a chance and it's subtlties will win you around.� Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine. 1987 - 1997. R.I.P.James Berry.
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