The Tubs: Cotton Crown review – a blistering, joy-to-heartbreak masterpiece
Deliciously, frontman Owen 'O' Williams's sonorous voice also recalls that of folk rock hero Richard Thompson, adding to the pile-up of guitar history supercharged on this swift, superb record. The snarling, cooing Williams wants us to know that he is 'a scammer in the world of love' (the caustic Chain Reaction) and 'an arsehole, baby' (Fair Enough). But he knows he'll 'get away with it' (The Thing Is).
A blistering eight-song run of relationship angst and romantic self-revelation is followed by a sucker punch: Strange, a rug-pulling track about how awkwardly people behaved after Williams's mother's suicide ('I found out the method from an article in WalesOnline'). That's the late folk singer Charlotte Greig on the cover, breastfeeding the infant Williams in a graveyard. An exceptional record.
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