{"product_id":"naked-self","title":"Naked Self","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e The the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Import\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 29-02-2000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product description\n\n\nOut of print 2000 studio album. Fts \"SHRUNKENMAN\".\n\n\nAmazon.ca\n\n\nHell on earth, mate? What The The's founder doesn't know about it isn't worth recording: \"They piss'n'moan \/ And push'n'shove \/ So below \/ As it is above\". It's been a decade since Matt Johnson's last \"proper\" album and a good few since he decamped to the same USA that loomed balefully over a fearful Britain in his brilliant, dystopian\nInfected. He may be nearly 40, the age at which nihilist peer Nick Cave produced a work of redemptive humility in\nThe Boatman's Call, but Johnson's ruthless new album suggests that even if they'd shut down every balefulness pit in England in the years since he was but a precocious young one-Cockney band, he'd still be producing enough to ship it back here by the, erm, baleful. Spartan in arrangement but darkly claustrophobic as ever,\nNaked Self draws on Johnson's insinuating vocals and the provocation of exaggeratedly menacing titles (\"Voidy Numbness\", \"Swine Fever\"), deliberately clunking lines about \"Kentucky fried genocide\" (\"Global Eyes\") and ambiguous exhortations to \"hey, embrace your pain\" (\"Phantom Walls\"). Indeed, despair casts a such a long shadow that it's startling to realise that, from the acoustic-strummed, lazily pretty \"Soul Catcher\" and \"The Whisperers\" to a deceptively tender-sounding \"Weather Belle\", there's frequently as much beauty as bile here. But, like those American breakfasts, the bile always seems to come in bigger portions.\n--Jennifer Nine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC:\u003c\/b\u003e 606949051020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 0606949051020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Audio CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedVeryGood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ID Shop.ca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51460732780841,"sku":"2F-LLIG-GY0W","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/6225\/6681\/files\/41f-uDvQEGL.jpg?v=1762032213","url":"https:\/\/konnichiwa.ca\/en\/products\/naked-self","provider":"こんにちはマート | KON NICHIWA MART","version":"1.0","type":"link"}