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The Cleaners from Venus – Number Thirteen
The Cleaners from Venus
Number Thirteen
Style: Rock
Label: Captured Tracks
Catalog Number: CT-203
Released: 1990
Adding this one in our collection here after hearing “Christmas in Suburbia” on a perfect “December” holiday playlist from our friend Bianca Lexis, Number Thirteen was something of a transitional record for the Essex-based jangle pop band. Originally released on cassette-only and intended more as demos than fully-realized productions, Number Thirteen is nonetheless a great collection of lo-fi indie pop songs from Martin Newell and his gang of cleaners. Opener “The Jangling Man” is a nostalgia-laced and somehow quite merry tune about the 1990 poll tax riots while “No Go (For Louis Macneice)” is a post-punk homage to MacNeice’s famous poem, “Bagpipe Music,” which reflected on the cultural decay of 1980s/90s. Cleaners from Venus would not release new material for another decade, though many of these would later appear on Newell’s solo album “The Greatest Living Englishman.”
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Indie / Jangle Pop
Tracklist:
Blind Side
A1 The Jangling Man
A2 No Go (For Louis Macneice)
A3 Mariette
A4 A Man For Our Time
A5 Here She Crashes
See Side
B1 A Street Called Prospect
B2 Minesweeping Memory Lane
B3 Germayne (Like A Cathedral)
B4 Boy From The Home Counties
B5 The Tear Collector
B6 Christmas In Suburbia
Credits:
Drums – Garrie Dreadful (tracks: 12 to 14)
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Tiv* (tracks: 12 to 14)
Instruments, Vocals – The Psychedelic Gardener (tracks: 1 to 11)
Keyboards, Backing Vocals – Louis Philippe (tracks: 12 to 14)
Lead Guitar – Captain Sensible (tracks: 12 to 14)
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – Martin Newell (tracks: 12 to 14)
Written-By – The Psychedelic Gardener
