The Act: ENJOYABLE LISTENS

The Release: 'THE ENJOYABLE LISTEN'

The Format: DIGITAL ALBUM

The Release Date: MARCH 11TH 2022

The Tracklisting:
1. 'CRYIN' EYES'
2. 'YELLOW ALMOND FOREST'
3. 'LATE SOUL'
4. 'A LAUGH AND A HALF'
5. 'REX THE MACHINIST'
6. 'PRIVATE'
7. 'SONG WITH LUKE'
8. 'LUST'
9. 'WHATEVER YOU SAY'
10. 'MAKING FRIENDS (I DO NOT EXPECT YOU TO LOVE ME BACK)'
11. 'FOR YOU, MY LOVE'

The Truth: 'The Enjoyable Listen' is the aptly-titled debut album from The Enjoyable Listens, the debonair alt.electro.pop Home Counties duo Luke and Jimbo, with hope in their heart, hunger in their eyes and heroic melodies tumbling from their powerful souls. It features the fierce panda singles 'A Laugh And A Half' from late 2021 and 'Yellow Almond Forest', out February 25th, and twinklingly arch bedsit glamour powerdrives the both of them are, too.

For Enjoyable Listens know their cultured pop dramas from their indie onions, but aren't shy to shed a tear to either. The likes of 'Late Soul', 'Lust' and 'Private' show a creative force full of forceful tales of super creepy love affairs built on a lavishly DIY production budget. Or, as singer Luke explains:

"‘The Enjoyable Listen’ is taken from a very large collection of songs I wrote over the last couple of years, in the cold corner of my living room. Coming out of Lockdown ‘21, Jimbo and I hit the road in a desperately hard way, hands and eyes aching from an era of mutual distrust. Words cannot convey music. They cannot elucidate nor illuminate. Both words and music enter the mind through the ears, but only the medium of music surpasses all senses to animate the body. Enjoyable Listens have always known this."

Enjoyable Listens formed in 2018 as a two piece consisting of Luke Duffett and Jimbo Savage, who lived in a derelict pub in Greenwich. They were both pursuing separate paths as songwriters, but in a novel attempt to make beer money (they lived across the road from a Wetherspoons, you see), they’d dress up and busk by the Cutty Sark. Luke wore a skeleton suit and a bowler hat, Jimbo modelled a long orange linen dress and 1970’s hustler daddy sunglasses. They were quite successful in the late summer months. That was really where it all started.

So far, so quirky. Fast forward four years, through five Enjoyable Listen singles, one EP, dozens of fruity live shows, one global pandemic and some Steve Lamacq lovings, the Enjoyable Listens have honed a live set which is a lithe, exuberant half hour blast of sharp cheekbones and cheeky melodies from the effervescent vocalist Luke and, occasionally, begrudgingly bouyant basslines from Jimbo. If you time it just right you'll find Luke standing precariously on a bar stool, serenading alarmed punters like some semi-demented showbiz showdown between Jarvis Cocker and Rick Astley.

"This batch of tracks reflects every theme we’ve ever stood for," enthuses Luke. "Redemption, salvation, the wicked heart, the incandescent light, the power Of God Himself, smiling mercifully upon me. All songs bar one ('Private', by the immensely talented Jake Robbins) have been expertly mixed by Corin Schenks. He was, is and will always be a massive source of encouragement to me. Jim Terrill heavily contributed to a few in a very meaningful way. I am blessed to know these people."

'The Enjoyable Listen' hereby becomes the second release as part of the fierce panda albums club, with the admirable fiscal support of the National Lottery Project Grants via the Arts Council. It follows on from the primetime soulpop opus by CHILI PALMER, and paves the way for longplaying joys by SCROUNGE and DEAN MCMULLEN.

Enjoyable Listens are bringing the live joys here, here and there:

Shadwell George Tavern 1st February
Oxford Jericho Tavern 25th February
New York New Colossus Festival 11th March
Austin Texas SXSW Festival 14th-18th March
Old Street Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes 29th March
Milton Keynes MK11 2nd April
(with A Flock Of Seagulls)
Birmingham Muther's Bar 8th April

“Enjoyable Listens is Luke Duffett, his phone, and several hogsheads of cabaret showmanship. He gyrates and sways like an animatronic Bryan Ferry, and croons his poetic balladry in the style of Lloyd Cole or Tony Hadley (and even, at times, early Vic Reeves). His songs are ostensibly simple fare to tug the hearts – and loins – of an audience raised on estate agent pop and John Hughes movies, but there’s an addictive passion to the performance, which takes place in the crowd as often as onstage, that reminds us of Jack Goldstein. We even end up singing along to a Bonnie Tyler cover, which is only a step away from pier-end schlock, but that step has been so elegantly taken you could easily miss how masterful Duffett’s performance is. That’s the total eclipse of the art.” - Nightshift Magazine

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