Marmite to most musical confectionery, and acclaimed by admirers as various as John Cooper Clarke, Stewart Lee and Mojo ("Combining lyrical precision with free-form guitar intensity...Brum post-Fall stalwarts' debut delivers in raucous abundance" ****) the long-awaited second album by Brummagem's best-kept secret weapon The Courtesy Group, '2nd City Liquor' allies a driving twin-bass attack with lyrical and melodic chutzpah. Far from being the `difficult second album', the songs you now hear on `Second City Liquor' have been truly inhabited; organic, surrealistic, everyday, psycho-geographical slices of lives from a range of different perspectives: from the going-mad dervish of Brick House Blues to the "Kyrie Eleison/I'm on medication!" galley-stomp of In The Rock, On The Rock, through the Afro-flecked calypso of "K.P's day off/ being worked" in When Closed to the bad-hair day/aerodrome extraordinaire that is A Heckory Base Day.
