Cursed Sleep, by Bonnie Prince Billy (12" on Domino)

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Rating: happy This record left our Brian feeling happy.

Bonnie Billy & Prince have a split single out on Domino raccoons & hairy tape manufacturers. Boingy Billie has been doing heartfelt country style music jobbies all over the alternative landscape since he was 4. His twin conjoined brother is called 'Prince' as he looks like a retarded bulldog with a tuft of unruly hair resembling a "crown" A crown also happens to be an old style coin from a defunct monetary system that this imbecilic country once relished in. "Bloody decimal system ....grumble....mither.... ......hercules chest spasm" 'Cursed Sleep' is a return to his darker twisted form, whence he came from & that. The second track is like Tom Waits buggering Beck in a swamp. It's so much better than all that smooth country gash that was seeping from his beard a couple of years ago. Brally-umpsch! A CD & 12" have a-three-ah tracks on

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“Cursed Sleep” is from the forthcoming album THE LETTING GO – the first Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy all-new, all-solo (with band) music album since 2003’s MASTER AND EVERYONE.

The title track of this single is smooth, elegant and assured, with every bit of tangled hair in place. Swaggering in vocally with a hitherto unknown quality and with a gang of string players in tow (the long-haired kind!), Bonnie receives harmonies alternately cute, cool and ballsy from on of his (and our) favourite singers, Dawn “The Faun” McCarthy. Sweet melody abounds, as it should for an advance look into a mind-blowing new album. And the rest-

Eyes fleshing, “The Signifying Wolf” shuffles discordant through a snake-pit of questions, declamations and undulations – a dance we’re all familiar with, so grab a butt-plug and jump on in. The conga line forms to the rear.

As always, when it’s all through, there’s “God’s Small Song” to be sung – red-eyed and feeling no pain. Redemption, anyone? Sorry kiddo – this is Bonnie’s record and he’ll feel peace when he’s damned good and ready.