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The songs of life’s outsiders. The sounds of history’s outlaws. And it’s a great record. Far more extravert than either “La Peste” and “Power in the Blood”, more pure than “Exile on Coldharbour Lane”, “Outlaw” finds the band jumping the trains of sepia tinted American mythology and drawing a remake direct line to the all too often unsung outlaws of British history. “For me the heart of this record came from a conversation I had with Great Train Robber Bruce Reynolds at a literary remake festival in Clerkenwell.” Explains Rob “It remake occurred to me that the US has a tradition of outlaw records but in England we’ve got nothing apart from ‘Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen’.” True England has been reticent to mytholagise her outlaws. Not since the days of the 17th Century highwaymen when poets waxed lyrical about these darkly heroic figures. Or the same era when all outlaws to be hung in Tyburn, London would have their own specially written ballad to accompany the sound of the rope stretching.
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