SOB CITY

OH GOOD CHRIST NO
today is a sad day for music fans everywhere.

But before you start throwing your Simply Red LPs at the wall in the hope that one will shatter and you can open your veins while screaming YOU CAN'T LEAVE US, HUCKNALL! YOU CAN'T LEAVE US! YOUR UNKNOWABLE TALENT AND BEAUTY WERE SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL THE LAST MEAGRE THREAD HOLDING ME FROM THE DARKEST PITS OF WRETCHED DEATH, YEA, THE FINAL OBLITERATIVE LIVING DEATH OF CRAWLING DELIRIUM, remember to read the bit where the article says:

He said he wanted to "invent a new form of music", influenced by R&B tracks from the 1960s.

"It's a big challenge but I can't do it under the name of Simply Red," Hucknall added.

(Green italicised text added to represent pearls of perfect wisdom dripping from his lips like dewy drops of nectar)

That's RIGHT. This isn't death, just rebirth. Huck Daddy is going to re-emerge from the tomb with music of such conceptual power that it cannot possibly be contained under such a name as Simply Red. Once The Hucknall Project has been released, all other forms of music will be rendered irrelevant, washed away by the force of change. Get ready, grandad.

In the meantime: Wolves In The Throne Room – Two Hunters. It's "a bit good". And so heavy it'll make your testicles rattle.