The Good The Bad are neither just good, nor bad & they’re definitely not ugly. They’re the best new band you’ve never heard of. Three desperados, bringing the finest New School Surf & Flamenco to people who don’t yet know how badly they need it. In fact, their lip-trembling, bone-rattling, hip-shaking dirty cool has been increasing the birth-rate in Denmark by the day ever since their own explosive conception just one year ago.

VBS release their new video for Multiplayer directed and produced by Simon Deshon. – Multiplayer is out on Split Records March 2nd 2009

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.

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