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01. JACOB YATES & THE PEARLY GATE LOCK PICKERS - The Tigris
02. JACOB YATES & THE PEARLY GATE LOCK PICKERS - The Gospel According To The Selfish Gene
03. JACOB YATES & THE PEARLY GATE LOCK PICKERS - The Grace Of God
04. JACOB YATES & THE PEARLY GATE LOCK PICKERS - Winter In My Heart
05. JACOB YATES & THE PEARLY GATE LOCK PICKERS - Care Home
06. JACOB YATES & THE PEARLY GATE LOCK PICKERS - Bits Of Glass
07. JACOB YATES & THE PEARLY GATE LOCK PICKERS - The Heart
ARTIST
TITLE
Goths!!!
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
VAVA 015LP VAVA 015LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/21/2016

Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate Lock Pickers's Goths!!! is a miniature epic that jettisons romance for realism and delivers uncomfortable but extremely relative, current and historical truths. From the ashes of the influentially revered and much missed Glasgow cult "Horror R&B" group, Uncle John & Whitelock, Jacob Lovatt can still yelp and howl powerfully like a possessed man but he also puts new life into ballads that could stand as manifestos for the lost and lovelorn. Poetic observations are set to dub, personal tragedy is told through folk with dark billowing rhythms and explorations into jazz, blues, ballads and even gospel do not sound out of place. Lovatt is joined by Cassie Ezeji on tracks such as "The Gospel According To The Selfish Gene" which is a life affirming rail against blind acceptance and "Care Home", an unflinching dub that stares into the abyss into which many fall. It is brutal, honest, distressing and describes real horror; a walk through the dark corridors of the human mind. Part raucous, affectionate, hilarious, rich, emotive, exhilarating, condemnatory, artful, literate and above all very real, it's impossible not to be moved and affected by this supercharged trip into the "awful truth". Life is chaotic, dark and unpleasant but the chinks of light come from the songs themselves.