Fife’s Shambolics are back with a new single, ‘Dreams, Schemes, & Young Teams’. Recorded at 7 West Studios and Eggman studios, it was produced by Chris Marshall (Gerry Cinnamon & The Dunts).
Image and artwork courtesy of Sonic PR
So free and easy it makes The View’s ‘Superstar Tradesman’ seem like ‘The Holy Bible’. The sumptuous drums demand your best Motown moves whilst the guitars take the energy of ‘There She Goes’ and jangle of Belle & Sebastien for a debauched waltz.
This is more than just great jingle-jangle guitars though. It’s a clarion call to hope! As the infectious lyrics, “we’re gonna take on the world” resounds, images of teenagers coalescing to hatch dreams. Not since The Enemy’s debut album has youthful polemic been this invigorating.
Bristling with energy, it’s a smile across a grey landscape and a nod upon a rundown town centre, things are going to be alright. Like Tom Clarke, songwriting duo Darren Forbes and Lewis Macdonald challenge the listener as much as they encourage:
“Are you chasing every one of your dreams”
If us mortals are honest, no, probably not. So, call your best friend, form a band, reform a band, lace up the boots, whatever it takes, get out there and make it happen! Fuck covid. Fuck lockdown. Fuck the Tories. No one is going to hand us the Britain we deserve. It’s time to saddle up and make it happen!
Easily Shambolics best single to date. So cinematic with its narrative. It encapsulates the release of Paul Nicholls sprinting through South Bermondsey in Nick Love’s classic ‘Goodbye Charlie Bright’. Gritty, escapist brilliance!