Cut Your Heart Off From Your Head
	(Red F/CD)
	Eamonn Sweeney

Initially conceived as an EP to coincide with their first European tour earlier this year, the project mutated into a seven-track album that functions as a companion piece to their electrifying 36 Strings debut and also as a fully-formed work that stands alone on its own seven feet. TRM fans will take delight in being both surprised and disorientated – two signs of an excellent band that aren’t afraid to flip the script and take a couple of risks. ‘Cut Your Heart Off From Your Head’ opens on an acoustic mandolin-assisted note, contrary to the eardrum-pounding ferocity of previous work. ‘Please Don’t Ask Us What We Think Of Your Band’ follows (title of the year or what!) coming on with all amplifiers blazing at eleven. Pick of the crop is the irresistible ‘The Dillon Family Dancers’ – the first great Rednecks pop moment to date. Cut Your Heart Off From Your Head concludes on an evocative electronic note, fusing Dublin hardcore and electro traditions in a blissful sonic marriage. Aptly enough, Decal’s Alan O’Boyle was at the production desk to steer this one’s course. A total revelation and proof that the Redneck Manifesto and The Jimmy Cake are among the very best we have.