jack penate
Just before Jen left for her trip out to Asia she told me to look after the blog. “Don’t just go posting loads of Jack Penate or something”. Oops. Well, it’s just too good not to. I know, I know, but keep reading.
This is now looking like the unlikeliest coming-good scenario of the last few years. Previously Penate was some horrendous blend of anachronistic East End barrow boy and Kate Nash’s high school sweetheart, dressed by a George at Asda focus group who’d watched last night’s Skins. Now he’s in videos that look like Helmut Newton doing mumblecore, and writing songs that are the best pop music of 2009. I already waxed lyrical about Tonight’s Today; new single “Be The One” matches it.
A driving beat and some twinkly sounds are all that’s needed to back up a fantastic verse vocal melody, that undulates along some rolling countryside before paragliding into an equally fantastic chorus. It goes even more heaven-wards with the soaring middle eight, which sees him in unexpectedly fine voice, before crashing and rolling down a hill in a jumble of broken trumpets. But hey, he’s alright, because here comes that chorus again.
Roll on the album!
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i’m with jen on no more jack penate posts please
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i’m with Ben; i never woulda given Jack a look if PIAIL hadn’t turned me on to Tonight’s Today, which pleasantly surprised and i now love. that said, would def be happy to hear about what else Ben’s listening to lately, too…
haha best description of jack penate ever!
Erm, agreed! I hated Jack Penate before as much as the next sane person, but this new album is actually…good?!!! I love it!
i like this. it’s good! id like to hear more from this artist. his voice kinda sounds like Keane, if you guys haven’t noticed but the style’s kinda more intense than Keane’s. Godspeed