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Cashpoint - Pigs of Idiom (1996)

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Of all the bands to ride the Britpop wave of the mid-1990s, few are regarded more uniquely than Mexborough janglers Cashpoint , represented here by their 1996 offering, the enigmatic 'Pigs of Idiom'. Eager to avoid the problematic 'second album syndrome', Cashpoint very wisely skipped straight to their third, and in the process created an uneven masterpiece that raised more questions than it answered: Why are we here? Why do we ask why we are here? And how many trombones is it possible for one man to play concurrently? While Jimminy Plint's guitar work is less consistent than on their debut and drummer Ron Kegg's barbituate habit is very evident on tracks like 'Limeater' and the closing 'Murdered like the dead', this is nonetheless a record that both captured the mood of the era and questioned the fact that it did.   The band continued to tour into the mid-2000s, but bassist Mike 'The Bike' Pichaels was the only survivor from the original...