Artist of the fortnight: The Jimmy Cake

"With the busy, wordless complexity and hyperintelligent precision of Daniel Figgis, and more Big Modernist Ideas than a labelful of post-rock records, they conjure the kind of queer pathos and creepy black-comic humanity you’d be more likely to locate in a Coen Brothers film than in Whelans of a Saturday. Harmonies bloom upward from amongst the crisscrossing basslines, shivering sleighbells, clattering drums and the accordion’s heavy breathing, revealing themselves gloriously over time, making us wait for it – and we do, transfixed..."
It's Dublin's The Jimmy Cake; their smashing second album Dublin Gone, Everybody Dead is in the shops this week; and they're our Artists of the Fortnight. Read, read, read - and watch the video, too :
Live review, Whelans, March 2001
Album review, Brains, Aug 2001
Interview, Oct 2001
Video, 'Hungry Ghosts', 2001