Reverend And The Makers - Heavyweight Champion Of The World (Wall Of Sound)
UK release date: 28 May 2007
Considering that, weeks before its release, Heavyweight Champion Of The World was already impossible to avoid on the radio, by now, when you can actually go and acquire your own copy, there's an unavoidable danger that we could all be sick to death of it. So it's a good job that it's infectiously catchy, lyrically clever, annoyingly danceable and in fact completely impossible to hate in any way.
Jon 'Reverend' McClure has long been making himself famous around Sheffield selling out his Reverend Soundsystem club nights and it's easy to hear why. Heavyweight Champion Of The World combines the canny northern vernacular of Arctic Monkeys with Madchester beats that you can bet are going to sound good on any dancefloor.
If you need an incentive to buy this now rather than wait for the debut album The State Of Things, look no further than its additional tracks: the soon-to-be-festival-dance-tent-classic 18-30 (give it six months and you won't be able to avoid "I want to get away, On a holiday" from Butlins to Ibiza, mark my words) and the spoken word addition of Manc wordsmith of the people John Cooper Clarke who joins him on The Last Resort. This is northern poetry at its best - with and without the music.
