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Jonny
From the opening seconds of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show to Jack Nicholson’s big moment in The Shining, the phrase “Here’s Johnny…” has always signalled that something big is about to happen. And this time round is no exception, even though the Jonny in question has somehow mislaid his ‘h’.
Inter-twining the musical DNA of two of Britain’s most gifted songwriters, Jonny’s debut album proclaims the advent of an irresistibly infectious new strain of psychedelic pop. With their respective bands, Teenage Fanclub and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Norman Blake and Euros Childs were prime movers in (to pick a couple of obvious highlights from their extensively illustrious back catalogues) Bandwagonesque and Barafundle – two of the best albums of the last twenty years. Now, they’ve pooled their resources to create a record bursting with exactly the kind of instantly memorable melodies their...
