Press
Charles Shaar Murray/Observer Music Monthly
Fronted by singer/ songwriter / multi-instrumentalist Jesse Budd, they plough a furrow intriguingly distant from most of the contemporary cliché zones…..his songs evoke both Jacques Brels Disque Bleu angst and Ray Davies off hand anecdotalism. His hyper literate, densely rhymed lyrics- ‘My head and my heart fought like brothers torn apart/ I got Cained and completely un-Abel’ – would not have shamed either Elvis Costello or Ian Dury at their freshest and Stiffest. The colours and textures his various instruments – guitar, harmonica, mandolin, accordion – bring to a basic four -piece line-up create far richer soundscapes than those of your average group. From zippy lap steel-driven instrumentals (Skeletons on Holiday”) to affecting exercises in suburban pastoralism (‘Hanging Round the Lean-to with Grandad’) via sinister tales of drunkenness and cruelty (‘Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead’), Flipron deliver extreme variety. ****
Music Connection (USA)
“(those) who like brains with their barrelhouse britpop will be greatly entertained. It’s a chance to have a rollicking good time with smart, intriguing pop music, which can be a rare thing.”
Jon Sobel/Blogcritic (USA)
Sharp-witted, antic, and addled, their songs are more than pop curiosities; psychedelic but always under control, they show offbeat classic rock influences (circa Kinks and Bowie) mixed up with bleary folk balladry and elements from smaller islands as well, from Hawaii to Coney. But all that is in the service of the songs and the band’s eccentric and intruiging sensibility…. Anyone with a taste for new, original, boundary-stretching pop that’s just plain fun is unlikely to be disappointed.
Belfast Telegraph
“… a brilliantly upbeat collection of musical dolly mixtures that instantly lifts any doom and gloom in a way that few new albums can accomplish.” …
5/5 -Album of the Week
Artrocker
“There’s a disregard for creative limits going on here, and it’s warping expectations of what we can expect from live music. …I don’t even know who I am after these brilliant bastards have played.”
Mickmercer.com
“… Stunning. This man’s songs are contagious!” …
Album of the Year
Daily Telegraph
“…woozy bohemian pop massacre…brilliant but frankly unclassifiable.”
Music Week
“ … Glastonbury’s macabre funsters are at the top of their game. With great writing and such a clear musical identity, you just have to smile and submit to their charms”…
Musicomh.com
“..Ultimately Gravity Calling is a damn near perfect record.”
The Independent
“Flipron could become the house band on the ghost ship in the next instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean. Someone tell Johnny Depp. “