This album snuck out last August, on mp3, and we missed it. It then was released at the end of 2009, as a vinyl box set (though our promo copy was on CD, so it’s not as if it was that obvious in the postbag).

Anyway. Better late that never. Especially when it comes out informing the world of a veritable treat - even one which confounds as much as it inspires and uplifts.
Something of a concept album, it opens with ‘A Heart Halved’, a scratchy recording of a scratchy tune pumped along, lazily, by a pounding pulse. That gives way - suddenly, in almost heart-attack-inspiring fashion, to ‘You Me: It’s Love’ which explodes into life with a distorted guitar and the key line “Just because I love you doesn’t make it easier”.

There’s 21 tracks here, all forming a story which - in the little handmade booklet which accompanies the CD - a story about falling in love with a girl when you’re already in love with another.
largely a one-man band, the [Future] King delivers each of the tracks as a tune in its own right even if they are supposed to run as a story. But tracks like ‘Girl Bites Boy’ with a chorus the Proclaimers would be proud of, while ‘Every Sentence Begins and Ends With Her’ is such a joyous celebration of sound it’s a wonder that near-neighbours haven’t signed him on on the strength of it.

There’s no filler here - it can certainly be seen as a set of 21 linked songs - and while the pace runs and dips this merely serves to punctuate what is, after all a bit of a mammoth listen. A bit like life itself… who it ends, does by get girl? That you will have to find out for yourselves…

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