Lord Cut-Glass

This is the debut album on Chemikal Underground for Lord Cut-Glass, the solo incarnation of ex-Delgado Alun Woodward.

Sometimes bashful, occasionally imbued with curmudgeonly bluster, and yet always lifted by humorous life learned truisms, Lord Cut-Glass strikes a dashing figure of musically inventive bravado. Galloping percussion, waltzes and marches, promenades of male and female harmony, delicate and serene creations punctuated by casual profanity and shot through with brazenly hilarious words-to-the-wise.

It is an album comprising one man's refined grasp of the musical form, an idiosyncratic pursuit that's unmistakably in the lineage of independent Scottish music. With its beguiling application of eclectic even anachronistic styles, sharply recalled sense and scene, it is the product of a febrile mind.