Ian Gittins 

The Zutons, You Can Do Anything

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The Zutons, You Can Do Anything

Cosmic Scousers the Zutons decamped to LA to record their third album, and it shows. Buffed to a hard shine by Johnny Cash/Black Crowes producer George Drakoulis, You Can Do Anything adds a layer of gritty blues to their skew-whiff psychedelia. Opener Harder and Harder could be Primal Scream in their Stones-aping, mid-90s incarnation, while What's Your Problem recalls grunt-rockers Reef. Yet their rollicking eccentricities reassert themselves on Don't Get Caught and Freak, while Dave McCabe's lewd, kitchen-sink lyrics paint an increasingly delinquent picture of modern Britain. Dirty Rat chronicles a sleazy, adulterous affair, Family of Leeches despairs of Asbo-wielding scallies and Bumbag displays a markedly Daily Mail attitude towards benefits scroungers: "You're a parasite, you're a virus/ Like a lepper [sic] or a tapeworm." John Redwood could hardly have put it better.

 

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