Track Listing

1. Ghost In the Gutter
2. Pretty In A Panic
3. Learning Lego
4. The Hope Edition
5. The Job Mr Kurtz Done
6. Sister Sneaker, Sister Soul
7. When We Were Wolves
8. Wrongfully, I Rested
9. Boredom Killed Another
10. The Reputation Of Ross Francis

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16680 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
Debut album from Scottish indie five-piece My Latest Novel.With their mix of breezy folk-pop melodies and thoughtful lyrics, their sound falls somewhere between Arcade Fire and Belle And Sebastian. The singles 'Reputation Of Ross Francis'and 'Sister Sneaker Sister Soul' are included.

Customer Reviews

Hugely promising debut album
My Latest Novel, a Scottish five piece, have been compared to The Arcade Fire and as always seems to be the case with Scottish bands Belle and Sebastian. The Arcade Fire comparisons are slightly baffling. They are expansive, volatile. mercurial, an explosive burst of alchemy induced clatter with an innervated pop core. They speak of huge expanses and wide screen horizons where as My Latest Novel are more about insularity their body language is as closed as TAF is open . My Latest Novel is music for bedrooms with the curtains closed, which is where the bands name could have come from, after all where do you write?
If all this genre bending gives the impression that this band are weedy solipsists then nothing could be further from the truth. While their music could occasionally be classified a twee, “Wolves” taken as a whole is a very fine debut. Using brittle melodious guitars, baroque strings, startling percussion breaks and alternating between the lead vocals of Chris Deveney and the hushed female backing there are a handful of songs on “Wolves” that confirm an intricate pop asthetic is at work within this band.
Their debut single “Sister Sneaker, Sister Soul” is a quavering love song which reaches it’s apex with an engorged instrumental bridge to a dulcet chorus. “The Job Mr Kurtz Done” skips between spoken word and a chorus that swoops like a kite on a windy day while last single “The Reputation Of Ross Francis” is just a terrific insidious folk- pop gem. By way of contrast “Learning Of Lego” sounds like the hordes of the un-dead were hammering at the studio (or should that be bedroom?) door.
Having compared one band to Belle And Sebastian in an Amazon review ( Camera Obscura) and received some stick for it I am loathe to repeat , which is good and dandy because I can also report that My Latest Novel are not exactly in thrall to them either. They have their own, more brackish identity, away from the buffed up artifice of the Caledonian glitterati. “Wolves” is a highly promising debut that deserves to be a best seller.

Great work
Usually when I get a new album I just listen to the first song and then listen to the rest whenever I feel like it. To be perfectly honest, I was not that impressed at first. I had heard 'When We Were Wolves' before and I liked it a lot, but the first song sounded like quite a cocky and overdramatic song, but after a while it becomes apparent that this album is all about this kind of thing.

The album is basically a series a big folky instrumentals, with occasional vocals placed here and there, usually sounding like a whole choir, but, like the last reviewer said, this is an album for a room with closed door and closed curtains.

Comparisons with bands like Belle and Sebastian are inevitable, but hey, to be honest, a lot of these bands from Scotland do sound awfully alike, no offence to them because I love a lot of them. They make a good mood album, which is unlike Belle and Sebastian or The Pastels, who I could listen to them forever and ever, I gave this four stars but sound like I hate it! But that's not true, I actually do like it a lot! It's a good album for falling to sleep with, very relaxing.

Scotland's best kept secret
I saw this band when I went to see the Pixies. I have been entranced by there music every since. Charming words and merging melodies I don't know how else to describe them buy the album and be assured you will find a song that will move you and make you smile.

This album is a wise investment. I am yet to sample there new album Deaths and Entrances, but chances are it will be as good or better.