This time round they’ve gone for Nick Launay, a name which might not be familiar unless you really enjoy reading record sleeves, yet that he engineered Public Image Ltd’s astonishing ‘The Flowers Of Romance’ gives a clue as to where we’re going. Not that the Wakefield band need anyone to save their career the success of ‘Men’s Needs…’, along with their almost veteran pop status (how many bands get to make more than two albums in 2009?) has more or less allowed them the freedom to do what they want from here on in. Eclectic selections for sure, but you can’t help but admire the band for not just picking Paul Epworth, a man who’s certainly helped make some great records but who must think, “God, not another shitty guitar band who want me to save their career” every time his studio reception phone rings. Duties for 2004’s eponymous debut were handed to Chicago’s avant-garde protest singer Bobby Conn, the following year’s ‘The New Fellas’ was realised perfectly by Orange Juice man Edwyn Collins, while two years ago Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos lent ‘Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever’ the pop sheen that assisted the band’s long-anticipated savaging of the mainstream. Say what you like about The Cribs (they look like their mum cut their hair, that bleeding-all-the-time thing was a bit gross, the phrase ‘ethical indie’ was the most ideologically flawed utterance of 2007), but you have to admit they’ve demonstrated an intriguing approach in choosing the people who produce their records.
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