Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
Sunday Best
A historian 200 years from now, when searching for the poetry to bring to life the feelings and sentiments of this our time at the start of the century, couldn’t go far wrong with the lyrical offerings of Scroobius Pip.
Ok, granted, he doesn’t speak for the whole nation, but who does? But what I find myself saying, as a working-class 20-something man listening to Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip’s albums is, “I was thinking that myself just last night!”
Pip just has that ability to express exactly what his peers all over the country are thinking.
The duo’s latest album, The Logic of Chance, is due to hit the market next month, following on from their critically acclaimed debut, Angles.
The album covers topics including falling in love, politics, the mixed emotions felt towards our country of Great Britain, and musical snobs, all tidily placed over the top of Dan Le Sac’s electronic magic.
In the track, ‘Get Better’, Pip, in one of his more astute observations on life around us comes up with, “Little kids being raised by slightly bigger kids…” which brought an anguished smile to my lips as I sat on the bus, hearing the lyric for the first time, surrounded by little kids being pushed around in pushchairs by, yep you guessed it, slightly bigger kids.
The song looks at the reasons behind the phenomenon in this country of teenage pregnancy.
“There’s not a lot to do, so kids decide to get drunk every night… do drugs every night to hide from their lives…. Kids rolling around the street rowing and fighting,” before dismissing the notion that it’s a class or wealth thing, “it really ain’t a case of rich or poor, it’s a case of self motivation and nothing more… The system might fail you, but don’t fail yourself.”
‘Get Better’ will be the duo’s first single release from the album.
In the song ‘Great Britain’ Pip tackles the tricky subject of knife crime, in a world where the pages of our daily rags are filled with stories of kids knifing kids all over the place all of the time. “Sometimes Great Britain ain’t that great, kids getting stabbed at alarming rate.”
And in ‘Last Train Home’ Pip takes a look at, surprisingly, the last train home. They’re either stinking of weed or stinking of beer, they being loud and obscene or they’re sitting in tears.
‘Angles’ was an amazing album and one that I thought would never be bettered. I was probably right, but it may have been equaled by this classy follow up.
--Kris Mole
The Logic of Chance by Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip is released 15/03/10
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