Get In is the second and final studio album by the Britishalternative rock band Kenickie. It was released on 25 August 1998[1] and reached number thirty-two on the UK Albums Chart.[2]Get In includes the singles "I Would Fix You" and "Stay in the Sun".
Production and release
The album was produced by Adrian Bushby and band-member Peter Gofton, except "I Would Fix You" which was produced by Bushby and Gofton with Andy Carpenter. Having been moved from the closed EMI subsidiary EMIdisc, the album was first released on CD and Cassette by the parent label. The album was re-released in February 2012 by Eastworld with seven bonus tracks. The artwork was designed by Nick Edwards.
Get In received generally positive reviews. In Melody Maker, Everett True praised it as "a most ravishing record" and contrasted the dark tone of the album's lyrics with its upbeat music, which he called "some of the most gorgeous, succulent pop around".[5]NME reviewer Victoria Segal wrote: "This is the sound of a band refusing to play the game set out for them – attractive blonde singer, chirpy attitude, ladders to the top – risking a slide down the snakes instead ... the exuberant, lip-glossed evil of 'Punka' has been replaced by the maturity shorthand of strings and synths, flamenco flamboyance kicking up alongside deadpan electro, Shangrai-La's drumbeats booming next to high-kicking pastiche. It's often audaciously bleak ... but they aren't stupid enough to go to the other Svengali-approved extreme and dress up as tragic divas. If it's messy, it's because the situation described in 'I Would Fix You' is messy; if it's brave, it's never foolish."[6]
The foursome from Sunderland ..., hitherto known for their bouncy but rather lightweight guitar-dominated pop ditties, have done a Supergrass and made a glorious second album that manages to be both enormously sophisticated and utterly fresh. What, exactly, is it about Get In that makes it so good? First, it manages to incorporate a huge variety of genres, from the Motown-meets-disco of 'Stay in the Sun' to the electronically-driven groove of 'Sixties Bitch', while always retaining its essential Kenickie-ness. Second, it features some quite gorgeous multi-layered backing vocals, over which the voice of lead singer and guitarist Lauren Laverne drifts dreamily, covering a range of emotions from sweet vulnerability to sneering defiance (although her attempt[A] at jazz crooning on the big-band finale, 'Something's Got to Give', is not terribly convincing). Third, and most crucially, it bulges with terrific tunes; if forced to pick the best, I'd choose the glorious 'Psychic Defence', which has a plaintive chorus and an exquisite key change, but there are plenty more which are almost as good. This, in short, is the sound of a band growing up and making proper music without losing any of their saucy wit or their sense of fun.[9]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Laverne and Gofton; except where indicated
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1.
"Stay in the Sun"
3:43
2.
"Lunch at Lassiters"
4:44
3.
"I Would Fix You"
Laverne, Gofton, Du Santiago
4:32
4.
"60's Bitch"
2:56
5.
"Run Me Over"
3:53
6.
"And That's Why"
Laverne
2:56
7.
"Magnatron"
Du Santiago, Gofton
3:45
8.
"Weeknights"
4:48
9.
"Psychic Defence"
4:54
10.
"5 AM"
Du Santiago
4:00
11.
"411 (La la La)"
3:38
12.
"Something's Got to Give"
Du Santiago
12:32
13.
"Disco Xmas On the Dole" (hidden track on the end of "Something's Got to Give")
