Imported British Rock at its Best - I loved the single On & On from Longpigs other album The Sun Is Often Out. This single alone had me anticipating all of their other songs. I realize I have arrived a bit late as a Longpigs fan. But I glad that I bought Mobile Home. Hopefully The Sun Is Often Out will arrive shortly.Listening to this album is surely a pleasure. The opening song The Frank Sonata is impressive. Blue Skies boasts manipulative guitars and the following song Gangstars has Crispin Hunt constantly singing, rhyming, and gave me a reminder of what Greg Alexander did with the New Radicals. I enjoyed Dance Baby Dance mostly because I have been listening to a band called The Music whose music is electronic guitar rock. Miss Believer is soft, gentle with vocals overlapping each other every once in awhile. Many Remy Zero songs are similar to this. I Lied I love You is very lovable and great to sing along with while being sad and depressed. Speech Bubble again boasts the same distorted guitars heard in Blue Skies. The song Loud and Clear features wonderful country steel guitars and violens at a not-so-country beat. These are just a few highlights of an excellent album that still works 5 years after its release. The album hangs its hat on the vocals of Crispen Hunt, who has a lot of range from top to bottom. Comparisons to Radiohead and Coldplay are valid, however, keep in mind Mobile Home was created before Coldplay and after OK Computer. It s not a concept album like OK Computer and the even though the songs reach depressing subjects, the album feels much lighter and more uplifting then the dark and dreamy sounds of OK Computer.Mobile Home brings back memories of so many awesome bands but still the album stands perfectly on its own. One might think that bands like Remy Zero, Coldplay, and even Radiohead and U2 might be influenced but such a wide range of songs. The album is as impressive as Maybe You ve Been Brainwashed Too by The New Radicals. Crispen Hunt s talents are equal or perhaps even great then that of Greg Alexander of The New Radicals. His vocals range from a dark Thom Yorke of Radiohead to a melodic Cinjun Tate of Remy Zero to the tragedy in Greg Alexander of The New Radicals.The more I listen to this album, the more I like it. It s very hard to give 5 stars to an album (I think only 3 or 4 off the top of my head, none of which I have reviewed). But Mobile Home only has minor faults. I m gonna rate it 5 stars but state here that the album is a very strong FOUR AND A HALF STARS. I don t want to even go down to 4 stars because the album is by all accounts, British Rock at its best.
unusual - this disc is unusual b/c Crispin Hunt actually writes lyrics that have meaning/depthanyone who has lost at love needs to hear I Lied I Love YouSpeech Bubbles reminds one of the Stones at their peak, i.e. Honky Tonk Womenthe entire disc is challenging, intelligent and well crafted
Colin - The record is a masterpiece. But it takes a lot of gettinh used to. I was pretty appalled by Gangsters , which featured a long unfocussed rant at the end, and this song remains the weakest, along with Dance Baby Dance , a ramshackle piece of disco. But who can argue with Blue Skies ? Dog is Dead and In the Snow are also classics, which are destined never to be heard. i think Hunt s vocal virtuosity is the difference between the Pigs and the detritus of Britrock. He can do things with his voice that Liam Gallacher wouldn t dream of trying-check out I Lied I love You for a prime example.
unbelievable - I cannot believe these guys are not huge. Frank Sonata alone is enough to to send these guys over the top. Makes oasis and coldplay look like rookies.
Crispin Hunt Delivers - This is the finest collection of works from a relatively unknown band, one I consider to be the finest to emerge from the UK. Filled with enrapturing melodies and bittersweet lyrics, each track resonates with the masterful talents of Crispin Hunt and his now defunct cohorts of incomparable stylistic rock. Once you hear this eclectic collection of songs you will undoubtedly agree that the Longpigs could have secured their place in the forefront of the British rock scene had they not parted ways.