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Call it an 'outsider-sound', it's a kind of wrongrock, or oddpop, confident and careful, orchestral in parts ''this is purposefull modern songwriting at the coalface". Finke is prophetic and yet naïve. Armatage's emotional orchestral writing unsettles as it piles over the feeling. Formed by Charlie Finke (Penthouse) and Justine Armatage (Gretchen-Hoffner), Cesarians have evolved into a compelling seven piece outfit, (piano, violins, cello, guitar & brass, along side a charismatic tight as f##k rhythm section ) a potent live act with years of touring experience including notable support invitations from the widely varied likes of likes of Adam Ant, Lydia Lunch and Spiritualized. Justine is the committed piano based writer and arranger, with super eclectic influences, Birthday Party to Bowie and Bach to Debussy. Charlie brings a musical ambition of Scott Walker with the realism and suave knowing groove of Ian Dury or The Fall. 'We'd as soon as listen (on the tour bus) to Charlie Mingus and Judy Garland as we do to PJ Harvey or Metallica I think that's completely normal'. The writing is as livid in thought as the live experience is performance. Pulled forward by the unknown delirium, at once voodoo and caressing. Where there is certainty let us bring un-certainty. Where there is harmony, may we bring discord. Where there is contentment, let us bring disfunction.
If art is the happy thoughts of unhappy people I hope this may be the reverse. The album is challenging; a counter weight to the light and fluffy so pervasive in the current musical panorama. It is a serious document. What is noble is how much beauty can be created from such tragedy. The music and prose harness the bleakness of times, disputing the necessity of that bleakness, and creating an essential space to convene within. The musical arrangement and the lyrics exchange roles creating both grit and charm; becoming both devil and angel; and it is a masterstroke. A thoroughly talented force; a marvellous, sad, soul bearing, defiant album.