Now unbelievably in their eight year The Indelicates are a male/female duo ripe with dichotomies from ironic bittersweet hymns to our self abusive, post modern times like ‘Waiting for Pete Doherty To Die’ to the self reflexive theatrical pop of ‘New Art For the People’ to 2011’s religious cult-based country concept albums ‘David Koresh Superstar’. They now return with their forth long player Diseases of England the album that “an Aristocratically governed, Jubilee celebrating England deserves” it reveling in an eclectic sound and trademark Brechtian theatricality that turns the ugly English lie in on-itself. The lead track and video ‘Not Alone’ gets down to the isolated heart of it all with a wistful clambering for light among the darkness, injustice and depravity, Simon’s haunted poetic vocal housed in mournful sighing organs and piano tinkles and a modest guitar lick that sheds swelling warmth as Julia offers her support.
‘There’s vultures in this wasteland/Watching as you crawl/And they’ll collect you as you stumble but you’re not alone’ sighs Simon, he could be singing about the struggle of the isolated underprivileged as they struggle to stand upright, a couple who have been through it holding hands shivering at the margins clinging onto that tiny shard of hope that things will be OK. Haunting and poignant however you interpret it: this is a song you must hear!
