The Legendary Tindersticks have returned with a cover version of ‘You’ll Have To Scream Louder’ by their heroes Television Personalities. It’s taken from their forthcoming album ‘Distractions’, due out in 2021 on City Slang Records.
Back in June, with Cummings still at the helm and the cabinet increasingly showing themselves to be out of the depth, frontman Stuart Staples found TVP’s ‘You’ll have to Scream Louder’ stuck in his head. Buoyed on by the frustration of the UK’s failure to deal with Covid, he took to the studio to put his own take on the cult classic.
Staples has taken the anti-Thatcher rhetoric of TVP and retold it from a position of the elder statesmen passing on information to the next generation. Calmer, crisper, and funkier than the original, they’ve perhaps struck upon a clarion call to over 40s to reawaken their protest spirit at this abysmal government.
The focus and imagination on show here mark out ‘Distractions’ as a must-listen for 2021.