Jumble Hole Clough: I'm Waiting for My Mam

Leave it to avant-garde musician Colin Robinson to mislead the listeners with I'm Waiting for My Mam, , the new album by his one-man project Jumble Hole Clough. Why not start with I Just About Remember The Revolution a glam-rocker of T-Rex variety to take a sharp left with the skewed I am Still Listening just as people were bobbing along contentedly. Things only get weirder after that one-two punch, as he mixes up krautrock with psychedelica, noisy rumblings that sound like mushy demos made by Mark E. Smith on his own again after he fired all the pickup players that made up the latest incarnation of The Fall.

Each track comes with an explanation, well sort of. Twenty Colden Grates is a nod to a project with his mate, the late, lamented Mick West. Tension & Release is an Ian Dury-esque nervous electronic ditty could be about not being able to navigate a flight of stairs. Death is the Poor Man's Doctor and Prelude to a Down-Payment on a Gas Cooke would have fitted on one of his "music for imaginary puppet shows" albums, had they been offered as instrumentals.

The title track I'm Waiting for My Mam, an obvious pun on the Velvet Underground song about scoring, finds him waiting for his mother to bring him bread and jam, although there might be a shady character about who might want to sell him some substances that are not exactly legal. Robinson however heeds no stimulants to create an alternate universe. Tapping into his own imagination - 52 albums and counting - has never let them down.

I'm Waiting for My Mam is a self-released album. Buy it (pay-what-you-want) from his website.

Tracks:

1. I Just About Remember The Revolution
2. I am Still Listening
3. Tower of Mabel
4. All Days & Onions
5. We'll Run Away to Rawtenstall
6. Twenty Colden Grates
7. Every Bloody Day
8. Tension & Release
9. Death is the Poor Man's Doctor
10. Manchester Melody
11. Keep Your Eyes On The Wheel
12. Friday 13th Part 16 (Cottage Hospital)
13. Prelude to a Down-Payment on a Gas Cooker
14. I'm Waiting for My Mam

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