Album Info

Kings & Queens

Pop/Rock - 2009

Glossier than Jamie T's debut, Kings & Queens is no less incisive about modern Britain. There are bad nights out... more

Tracklist

1

368

4:43 min
2

Hocus Pocus

3:30 min
3

Sticks 'n' Stones

4:00 min
4

The Man's Machine

4:50 min
5

Emily's Heart

4:07 min
6

Chaka Demus

3:34 min
7

Spider's Web

4:44 min
8

Castro Dies

2:59 min
9

Earth, Wind & Fire

3:45 min
10

British Intelligence

3:18 min
11

Jilly Armeen

3:12 min
12

The Curious Sound

2:52 min

About Kings & Queens

Glossier than Jamie T's debut, Kings & Queens is no less incisive about modern Britain. There are bad nights out (“Sticks and Stones”), illicit affairs (“Spider's Web”), and prescient condemnations of the surveillance state (“British Intelligence”) wedded to Treays' usual hotchpotch of music influences. “368” uses a milk bottle as percussion, and gives way to strange sampled vocals and chanting. “Emily's Heart” is a lilting murder ballad, while “Chaka Demus” and “Earth, Wind & Fire” nod to soul. Kings & Queens had a difficult gestation, but you wouldn't know it from this cocksure collection.