"In "Me and the Major," a scintillating blues harp soundtracks a pointless circular disagreement with an officious Boomer as to whether the Queen's army is where one goes to learn to be a man. Where does one go to learn to be a man? Or to learn anything, for that matter? The sins of the father are cheerfully sloughed off on the son."
""Hillary went to the Catholic church because she wanted informationThe vicar or whatever took her to one side and gave her confirmationSt. Theresa's calling herThe church up on the hill is looking lovelyBut it didn't interestThe only thing she wants to knowIs how and why and when and where to goHow and why and when and where to follow""
A blues harp and spare arrangements frame songs about generational friction, paternal legacy, and the search for meaning. A pointed track stages a circular confrontation with an officious Boomer over whether military service teaches manhood, while earlier generations who "took drugs" become censorious in old age. The title centerpiece offers steel-guitar vignettes of doomed characters seeking sustenance from predatory, ritual-bound religious institutions. The record evokes a pre-Brexit sense of Potemkin church and state structures, insufficient for younger generations' physical and psychic needs. Some critics link the songs' simplicity to Scottish and Olympia twee and lo-fi influences.
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