The Voluntary Butler Scheme to release Multiplayer March 2nd
After last summer’s critically acclaimed, debut ‘Trading Things’ EP; a beautiful and brightly textured compilation of home-made love songs and candy coloured sentiments, The Voluntary Butler Scheme (a.k.a Rob Jones) returns with ‘Multiplayer’. Imagine Tony Christie on vocals, add the happy-go-lucky dance stylings of Junior Senior and then for really good measure you’ve got The Jackson Five popping by to make a nice refreshing cuppa.
This is the distinctive VBS sound and ‘Multiplayer’ a warm, twinkling love song, full of tender couplets and gentle pathos, “Love is a game, a game for two/ Love is a game I wanna play with you” layered delicately between dancing guitars, a melange of wobbling instrumentation jellies, hand claps and shimmering woo-woos.
‘Multiplayer’ showcases Jones’ sweet delivery with occasionally sardonic undertones, ‘Don’t go treating my heart like bagpipes any more’. Biting Northern wit from a mild-mannered Midlands’ boy.
You can just see Jones sitting neatly in his bedroom, wistfully noodling whilst deliberating on love’s wild edge. The thrill of the chase is so much safer from a distance. Rob Jones is a kitchen sink romantic, making up love songs out of the materials of the everyday.
