Suicide Songs

Description

Two years on, the new MONEY album, Suicide Songs, takes you deeper into their sound and vision. It feels more advanced and yet simpler, more perfected and yet more open. It is, by turns, a tender, barren, cavernous, smouldering, despairing and inspirational piece of work. Its a long days journey into night, but it pays huge dividends when you arrive, drawing you in and casting a spell that wont let go.

Yet as with many great albums, and perhaps appropriately given its title, the creation of Suicide Songs was far from an easy ride. In 2014 singer Jamie Lee moved back to London, with, the objective of becoming the best writer I could be, writing poetry as well as songs that were connected as kin. Meanwhile, Billy and Charlie continued to write and produce music in Manchester. Reunited in the city of their formation, Jamie recalls drunkenness and mental ill-health, lost in self-doubt, of internal disputes about the musics direction songs but no palpable direction. The outlook was often fairly bleak. But we stuck together. Producer Charlie Andrew persuaded MONEY to relocate back to South London and after three months of creativity in a Brixton studio all the earlier strife was suddenly worth it as MONEY emerged with the magnificent Suicide Songs.

The album finds the band gelling as never before, framing Jamies poetic vision with an intuitive grasp of the albums dignified and despairing themes. There are strings and brass, gospel-style backing vocals, and the (Indian stringed) dilruba on the opening I Am The Lord. This collectively adds more divine dimensions to the bands sound, embellishments that MONEY didnt have the confidence to try out on their debut.