Alfie were a little known indie band from Manchester who formed in 2000 and disbanded seven years later without achieving any kind of commercial success. They got reasonably good reviews, but unless you read the NME fervently on a weekly basis, your chances of even hearing of them were pretty limited. I don’t think I’d even heard an Alfie song before stumbling on this, their final album, in Tesco bargain bucket. I think it set me back 97p – at that price, I was happy to give it a go. I’m glad I did. Despite their lack of success, Alfie were, at least on this evidende, a pretty decent act. There’s nothing earth-shattering about this album, but it’s consistently good, with some real highlights (‘Your Own Religion’ and ‘Applecart’ in particular). There was a three month gap between this album being released, and the band calling it a day, so I imagine they poured everything they had into this as a final throw of the dice. It’s a shame it didn’t work, because it should have done.
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