Mekons - ExquisiteVinyl LP pressing. Hunkered down and unable to record together, in 2020 The Mekons created a glorious digital chain letter of an album. Exquisite is a sprawling manifesto of connection and defance that deftly slides through fddle tunes, digi dub, freside ballads and urgent rock & roll. And that's just side A. The original recording plan was to have been the whole band in a room session in Valencia, Spain. When the pandemic rendered that impossible the

sophisticated pop and jazz with an intensity and passion rarely matched

drive the drama with unremitting intensity

putting the call out to some of the top songwriters for fresh material

an album with reimagined versions of the legendary duo's discography

leaving scars

Nasser Baker's keen ear for house has been recognized by plenty of industry greats

Invisible Face version

In Leleu's eyes

which incorporates many deft variations

Opera North

Boone plays the part of Russian*an aging trapper recruited to help rescue a teenage girl from a band of Native Americans holding her hostage in the wilds of Utah's vast wilderness

and nodding to Outkast and UGK as influences while the femcee asserts her power