Jimmy's Show

Noir serves up a hitchhiker's guide to British psychedelia, but along the way reminds us that clever music works best when it's aimed somewhere at the heart.

The titles alone on Jim Noir’s fourth album – ‘Driving My Escort Cosworth To The Cake Circus’, anyone?

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As he approaches 30, Mancunian psych-popper Jim Noir shows no sign of relinquishing his child’s eye view of the world. Lyrically, third album Jimmy’s Show is frequently too whimsical for its own good, with many of its tales (the life of a chewing gum collector; the torment of wanting a cup of tea when the caddy’s empty; writing to Her Majesty and imagining her contentedly vacuuming palatial carpets) the musical equivalent of a novelty tie: clearly light-hearted in intention, but frequently eye-rolling in their effect.

Mancunian bedroom multi-instrumentalist Jim Noir’s greatest success came with ‘My Patch’, a runaway single from debut album ‘Tower Of Love’ which made it onto all sorts of adverts in 2006.