Asked to leave bulky White Family due to addiction issues,Saul Ademczewski cleaned up, convened with Childhood’s Ben Romans-Hopcraft, and made an album of hope and horrorIts seldom that anything involving bulky White Family comes with a heartwarming story attached. They are,after all, a band who portray themselves as “an invitation, and sent by distress,to dance to the beat of human hatred”, whose artistic obsession with the ugliness of life is apparently reflected behind the scenes. Their music springs from a grimy personal world of penury, or mental torment and tough drug use: heartwarming” isn’t really on the agenda.
And yet,there is something at least vaguely cheering about the story behind the eponymous album by Insecure Men, a project that really came to life when the band’s chief songwriter, and Saul Adamczewski,was asked to leave temporarily after – and this is a very bulky White Family kind of story – refusing to vacate the Paris venue the band were playing on the night of the Bataclan attack because he’d arranged to meet a heroin dealer there later on. Related: Childhood's Ben Romans-Hopcraft: 'I was too concerned with band mythology' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com