The new Album from Cult UK Indie Pop Band The Pocket Gods - Borderline
- by Adam Bailey
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The Pocket Gods' frontman made an attempt to take his own life on January 4th this year after taking an overdose. He survived and has recorded this album to try and make sense of the years and years of childhood abuse he suffered at the hands of his showbiz parents.
Because of his childhood he has suffered severe PTSD and was diagnosed with Borderline Personailty Disorder (BPD) which inspired the album's title...as Lee states - borderline between what and what? Famous label mates with BPD include Marilyn Monroe, Amy Winehouse & Kurt Cobain all of whom took their own lives.
The songs chronicle his abusive childhood with "32 Highview Road" being the perfect suburban home on the outside but the "evil is deep inside" and "The Screams" recalls a childhood waiting to be rescued by his kind grandparents in their "blue car with smiley faces".
Other songs take on the anger towards his parents - who in fact abandoned him as a child for 12 months whilst touring with Frank Sinatra - "die fucker die" & "Longwood Nightmare".
"The Ninth Conguration" is a prog folk epic based on Lee's favourite film by Exorcist writer William Peter Blatty. The film explores the relationship between madness and the spiritual a theme which is also echoed in the tender but disarming "Survival Of The Shittest" which one reviewer descibred as beautiful love song sung by someone with Tourettes. Indeed rails aganist the dogmatic aetheism of Richard Dawkins - "It's all part of the Dawkins master plan, renounce all hope of a big white man...sitting on a cloud throwing us hope...now we hand ourselves on Darwin's rope."
"My Next High" is an lo-fi indie depression anthem which Lee wrote during a brief stint with morose Scots indie legends The Jesus & Mary Chain.
The album combines The Pocket Gods' love of genre hopping from country to Hip Hop to prog all head together by Lee's caustic lyrics and self deprecating humour.
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