White Light Fever by The Kingsize Five – the first full length album released on Little Genius Recordings came out on July 8th 2008. Available on CD with a Gatefold Sleeve and as a digital download on all platforms.
The Kingsize Five were a London based genre straddling outfit with a take on the blues that mixed jazz, swing and punk with a strong melodic sensibility and dark lyricism.
Tracklisting
1: White Light Fever
2: I Am A Missile
3: Capricorn
4: One For My Daddy
5: Cecilia’s Back
6: Big Sis Little Sis
7: Countless Little Treasons
8: There’s Nothing We Can Do
9: A Very Serious Artist
10: Bathos Pathos
11: Taxi to Tucumcari
Media quotes
“Amazing: I predict this will spread through the country like a virus.”
Shaun Keaveney – BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show
“Mighty, mighty refreshing.”
John Kennedy – XFM
“A bunch of musical rogues!”
Steve Lamacq – Radio 2 New Music Show
“Ungodly, infectious melodies. The most entertaining band I’ve ever seen? Damn right!” Lee Puddefoot – Artrocker
“A veritable slice of jazz infested, good time swing.”
Mischa Pearlman – Fly Magazine
“And if you don’t own a pair of dancing shoes, this will inspire you to buy some.” Jon Blackstaffe – Blues in Britain Magazine
“A manic mix of rocking blues and jazzy, dirty swing delivered with riffed up panache.” Molloy Woodcraft – The Observer
“Stomps like a super charged cabaret horn section. When they really let rip, as in potty mouthed Glen Miller pastiche Big Sis Little Sis, they hit home with bawdy theatrical panache.” Thomas H Green – Q Magazine
” A musical law unto themselves, this debut is upbeat, cocky and, thank God, completely fresh 8/10.” Amy McGill – Rocksound
“Combines grace and danger in equal parts. Purveys a rumbling sound that owes something to Louis Jordon and Earl Bostic as much as it does to Madness and Ian Dury.” The Word Magazine
“A fine celebration of human weakness set to fine thrilling refreshing music you can dance to – swinging jumping jiving big band blues, somewhere near jazz and just beyond rock ‘n roll – go enjoy it, we weren’t sure they’d pull it off over the length of a whole album, they more than did.”
Album of the Week Sean O – The Organ
“Brassy in more ways than one, the band kick up a shitstorm of showtunes (as opposed to a snowstorm of shit tunes) that are as potty mouthed and seductively burlesque as they are authentically rendered. With this much talent on parade the band should have no problem converting the unswung masses before long.”
Backbone – 24/7 Magazine
” White Light Fever has inevitably drawn comparisons with Mark Ronson’s productions. The Kingsize Five dig deeper and wider though, pulling in everything from Glen Miller to Jerry lee Lewis, sprucing it up with modern punky zest and sloshing it down with lashings of wit and pizzazz by the gallon.” Steve Hillar – The Metro
“Outrageous, different and very, very good.”
Carol Borrington – Blues Matters
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