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Title: Auteurs Mainman in Pygmalion Mode
Review: Not content with the krautfunk of Baader Meinhof or the magpie appropriations of his main band, Luke Haines here plays Svengali, muse, and puppetmaster to ventriloquist's dummy Sarah Nixey. Sounds bad, but it isn't. BBR has all the unsettling lyrical panache of an Auteurs album, but is set against a monochrome musical backdrop that ups the intensity quite fetchingly. Girl Singing in the Wreckage, It's Only the End of the World, and the title track are all masterworks, while Althea and Donna's old Joe-Gibbs reggae classic Uptown Top Ranking loses its sass and comes over all threat and menace instead.The US release adds five tracks to the original UK version, all good and one (Lord Lucan is Missing) superb. Unfortunately, it replaces the scary circus monstrosity cover art of the UK original with an anodyne little-girl illustration, thereby undermining Haines' real message: England makes you a carnival freak.
