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Artist: Working For A Nuclear Free City
Album: Jojo Burger Tempest
Label: Melodic
2010
http://www.myspace.com/wfanfc

The "Jojo Burger Tempest" is the new album from the UK's finest electronic post-rock band Working For A Nuclear Free City, the follow-up to 2007's "Businessmen & Ghosts". And like that expansive debut, The "Jojo Burger Tempest" takes place across two discs, with 15 tracks on one and the 30-minute title track on the other.

Everything about the album is epic. It was recorded over a period of 18 months in two distinctly different locations: a warehouse in the north of England and an isolated cottage in France. Over that period, the band laid down a few ideas a day and amassed some 2800 song ideas, despite claiming to suffer from writer's block. The longform track on CD2 was created in a single day using ideas that had found no home elsewhere on the album, like DVD extras reworked into a new piece of art. Says Phil: 'I'd always liked the idea of doing a mix-tape kind of track like Q-Bert, Shadow, Yoda, people like that, used to do with their mix tapes. It's not meant to be a prog rock tune, more of a collage. It was really fun way to work and felt like we were really doing something different'.

Working For A Nuclear Free City formed around brothers Phil and Jon Kay and schoolfriend Gary McLure. Ed Hulme joined two days before the band's first gig, cementing an unconventional line-up that doesn't always have a singer, though Phil takes the majority of the vocals. Their relatively low-profile at home masks considerable US success. Having endured American tours so long and arduous that Gary was rushed to hospital in Texas and left minus three feet of intestines, the band were lauded by tastemaking radio stations and blogs and nominated for 2007s Shortlist Prize (America's Mercury Music Prize equivalent) alongside M.I.A., Feist, Wilco and Arcade Fire.

tracklist:
CD 01
01 Do a Stunt
02 Silent Times
03 Autoblue
04 Alphaville
05 Pachinko
06 Faster Daniel Faster
07 A Black Square With Four Yellow Stars
08 Black Rivers
09 Float Bridges
10 The King and June
11 B.A.R.R.Y.
12 Little Lenin
13 Inokashira Park
14 Low
15 Burning Drum
16 Brown Owl
17 Buildings

CD 02
01 The Jojo Burger Tempest