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01. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Train Home
02. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Counts Box
03. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Crumbtrail
04. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Watch The Movie!
05. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Silverback
06. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Breakfast Matters
07. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Stafford Beer
08. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Office Poet
09. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - The Campaign For Plain Nuts
10. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - The Plague
11. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - The Right Stuffing (Xmas In Space)
12. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Receipts
13. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - T-Towel Souvenir
14. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Once In A Lifetime
15. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - Smaller Boats (Get You Closer)
16. THAT WILL BE LUNCH - [Untitled]
ARTIST
TITLE
The Mixtape Of Things
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SCRATCHY 040CD SCRATCHY 040CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/29/2016

The third helping from art-pop prankster Alvin Spetz, the maverick singer-songwriter responsible for two of the most eccentric and original albums of the 2010s. Released under the Full English Breakfast moniker, his self-titled debut and the follow-up, Candy In Weightlessness, earned rave reviews, from broadsheets to blogs. With The Mixtape of Things, Spetz moves on up through the daily nutritional cycle and introduces his That Will Be Lunch alias. The Mixtape of Things is full of songs (some only just scraping past 30 seconds), which evoke children's TV themes one moment and industrial clubs from the future the next. In this unsettling but always playful landscape, one almost half-expects the whimsical paean to the snacks marketing division of British supermarket chain Waitrose when it arrives in the shape of "The Campaign For Plain Nuts." Nestled among all the strangeness is an inspired cover of the Talking Heads classic "One In A Lifetime." Spetz has delved deep into the DNA of this groundbreaking track and extracted what can only be described as "previously unseen footage." Like an inquisitive kid, he takes the engine apart without a hope in hell of ever putting it back together again. Spetz discovered music while studying at the University of Aberdeen in the '80s. Inspired by the fledgling indie sounds of Edwyn Collins, The Fall, Josef K, and The Pop Group, he embarked on a journey that's included nascent recordings with members of The Shamen, ventures into Sufism and the resultant hounding from tabloids, the immolation of everything he's ever recorded, and one gig. Ever. In Belgium.