Mclure may be a politics graduate but instead of hiding in an ivory tower he has soaked up the musical pulse of his hometown and mashed up the indie and the baseline, the sound systems booming out of council blocks, all night clubs in beaten up warehouses and the power of the song to make a record that captures the urban sprawl of modern UK music that is a long way away from the whiney hipster world.īy deliberately swerving the politics that have dominated his thinking of the past few years, John Mclure has, conversely, made his most political record yet. If Shane Meadows could made great contemporary pop records, mashing the rush of indie with the hedonistic pulse of electronics and dance then this what he would sound like. Too smart to get labelled Mclure has ditched the politics and his the new album sees a return to their most concise and perfect work yet.
He then became a spokesperson for a generation that didn’t speak, a maverick spirit whose inteligence ruffled feathers of the lazy and complacent and terrified the mundane keyboard warriors. The impassioned giant of Sheffield who speaks clearly and with a volcano of emotion John Mclure of Reverenced And the Makers made his name with this kind of writing. It take a special talent to make magic out of the kitchen sink, to tell the story of real world with an intimate touch that doesn’t sound patronizing. Great pop music can be many things, it can be escapist, it can be euphoric, it can be about love and loss, it can also be about the everyday, the magic in the mundane, the soundtrack to real life, a modern urban folk music.
In which Reverend And The Makers return for their third album which becomes more political by dropping the politics for the reality of the everyday At least you know what his twitter is now…