This Job's Forever - The Peel Session [EP]

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Late 1990's lo-fi Liverpudlian John Peel favourites Rooney (not the US band who ripped their name off later) went along to Maida Vale in 1999, their first and only visit to a professional recording studio, to record their first and only John Peel session. After BBC6 Music repeated the session recently we were reminded of its unique charms and decided to make it available on disc for the twentieth anniversary of its first broadcast. In the session, the electro-lo-fi of Rooney's three albums is translated into an understated post-punk power pop, and serves as the only evidence of how the live band (Colin Cromer, Ian Jackson and Paul Rooney) sounded. All of the tracks showcase the particular Rooney lyric approach, focussing on hyper-mundane modern life, such as paintwork jamming windows shut, curtains letting in sunlight and standing at a distance from bus stops.

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released January 20, 2020

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Rooney Liverpool, UK

1998-2000
3 Rooney albums

New album of unreleased material from 2000-2006 coming soon on Owd Scrat Records...

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