Sean Taylor 'Angels' introduction – album released December 2007

Angels is because hell didn't freeze over
Angels is because George Bush is Gordon Brown is David Cameron
Angels is because Razorlight is Killers is Kaiser Chiefs is Arctic Monkeys
Angels is because Saddam Hussein is Osama Bin Laden is Rupert Murdoch
Angels is because Big Brother is Fame Academy is Ant & Dec is Coca Cola
Angels is because Iran is Iraq is Afghanistan
Angels is because Sky is Fox is CNN
Angels is because Pete Doherty is Paris Hilton is Celebrity Love Island
Angels is because the Queen is the King is the Emperor With No Clothes
Angels is because Timberlake is 50 Cent is Poundland
Angels is because Simon Cowell is Melvyn Bragg is Jeremy Paxman....

‘Angels’ is 11 tracks that came out of necessity. There was an innocence that informed my first album, ‘Corrugations’. The songs were built on the optimism of learning to play and perform. ’Angels’ came from a much darker place with more layers of instrumentation and riven with a fury at a world where everything has been reduced to the consistency of a tepid viscous gloop, where politics is a fashion, where music is mediocrity, and where celebrity has replaced substance. In a world of shopping malls and rabid consumerism, no one seems to pause and wonder who profits from all the crap that we’re being sold, or who owns the supermarkets where a world without meaning is on display. ‘Angels’ is a response to this – the idea that everything is the same and that there is no difference between life and death. ....