My Sweet Lord

Lord Cut-Glass
Genre: Indie
From: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sometimes bashful, occasionally imbued with curmudgeonly bluster, and yet always lifted by humorous life learned truisms, Lord Cut-Glass (former Delgado Alun Woodward) strikes a dashing figure of musically inventive bravado. Galloping percussion, waltzes and marches, promenades of male and female harmony, delicate and serene creations punctuated by casual profanity and shot through with brazenly hilarious words-to-the-wise.

Woodward’s solo project has grown incrementally over the 4 years since The Delgados disbanded. In between “non rock n roll” spots of gardening on his allotment, doses of scarlet fever and work on Chemikal Underground releases – including those of Aidan Moffat and The Phantom Band – the moniker ‘Lord Cut-Glass’ has made fleeting appearances on Chemikal’s own 'Ballads Of The Book' project and the compilation 'Worried Noodles'.

The Lord's self titled debut album is unmistakably Scottish. If the album was to appear on the BBC's 'Who Do You Think You Are' it'd trace it's lineage right back to the 'Sound of Young Scotland' via The Vaselines, The Delgados (obviously), Belle & Sebastian and Arab Strap. With its beguiling application of eclectic, anachronistic styles it's the product of a febrile mind… “At the start of recording I got scarlet fever and stayed in bed for ages, reading my girlfriends books.” Explains Woodward of Lord Cut-Glass’ creation, “I read Under Milk Wood in a feverish state and decided I would call myself after one of the characters”.

“If Lord Cut-Glass was a political leader he’d be more dictator than democrat: more Charlemagne than Chirac” explains Woodward to which I'd add more Stalin than Gorbachev, more Pinochet than Allende or even more Brown than Blair.

Go Try

MP3 - Lord Cut-Glass - Even Jesus Couldn't Love You
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Go Visit

Lord Cut-Glass - Myspace

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As a special treat here's a couple of MP3s from one of the other great bands on the Chemikal Underground label which I'm sure you'll love...

MP3 - Mt Wilson Repeater - Pencils / Pens
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MP3 - Mt Wilson Repeater - All Night Every Day
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Mt Wilson Repeater - Myspace