Polite Company: Please Go Wild (2024)
UK-based Alan Gregg of the Mutton Birds puts on his delightfully observational and slightly cynical hats to take on PR spinners, the braying idiots who have come into money, loneliness and so much more on an album which pulls Gilbert O’Sullivan, Ray Davies, Randy Newman and Jarvis Crocker into his orbit. Perhaps the most surprising and unexpected album in recent years. Funny, fun and sharp as a scalpel.
Next: Nick Lowe, Indoor Safari; Ray Davies, Working Man’s Cafe; Gilbert O’Sullivan, Himself and Back to Front; Randy Newman, Good Old Boys
