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by Noel Bones & The Undoubted Genius

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Le monde irait - il mieux? 03:12
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Oh my goodness, it's a doggy 03:03
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Prince changing into a frog, and back again 05:15
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I love you 03:45
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Asim Shazad, 5-4-3-2-1 blast off! 05:04
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The only 'official' release from No(el) Bones & The Undoubted Genius. Five tracks recorded on analogue 8-track tape between 1998-1999. Only 40 copies were made and sent out anonymously to local Leeds music-heads who would maybe appreciate the strange sounds emerging from Ashville Avenue in LS6.
One man to get a copy was local journalist Graham Chalmers of CHALM fanzine fame, the go-to for all Yorkshire based music in the late-90s. Here is his review dated 19th January 1999:

"A collection of colourful pieces designed to provide a musical background for dance, mime and creative movement of all kinds" says the blurb in this delicately designed tape sleeve adorned with a harlequin figure on a yellow background.
Leeds based No Bones & The Undoubted Genius are/is/whatever undoubtedly pretentious, of no appeal to rock fans and, I imagine, pretty hard to recreate live.
It's a work of great talent.
Track One (stuff the strange titles): "Don't sweat it", a sinister, creeping piano line, a dub-like bass, a gentle percussion, a mixing of breathy French and English dialogue, Wire do avant-garde dance (if you remember who Wire were?). I love the way the piano tip-toes in and out the song like a sneaky cat.
Track Two: "I got to get my head together real soon". More spookiness - a monotone monologue, acoustic guitar riff, a bubbling pit of visual sound effects - the Syd Barrett of dance.
Track Three: Bird whistles, a ballroom piano recorded in the distance, an echoy foghorn, a sea shanty flute. Ambient tinklings a la Jam & Spoon. (Nice but old fashioned now).
Track Four: "I Love You" sung over and over by a triple-tracked boy and girl muffled chorus. Haunting keyboards, acoustic doodlings, French radio chatter. Romantic but worrying.
Track Five: As above, only weirder, more directionless, religious. Apparently.
A mix of the intricate and the random. No Bones & The Undoubted Genius have produced the most ambitious music Charm has ever received in the post.

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released July 6, 2020

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