Label: Regional Bears – RB57
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: Apr 2025
Genre: Electronic, Non-Music
Style: Spoken Word, Experimental
Stockport’s Regional Bears unleashes their label MVP Russell Walker for what seems to be their debut solo album proper on ‘Back To The Womb’ - a rambling masterclass of British banalities and suburban dread.
What’s it like to be from these dogged isles? Everyone’s experience is likely to be very different, but it’s safe to assume that whilst from the outside English life is a carousel of lawn tennis, Pimm’s, cosy homestays in the Cotswolds and trips to Harvey Nic’s, the reality is cruising the reduced isles in Aldi, trudging up a regional high-street of decaying charity shops and circuitous bus journeys in the pissing rain. Walker’s maundering sound-poetry and tape music cut ups captures the ENDLESSLY mundane aspects of British life and reflects them back at us to reveal their utterly ludicrous and undeniably hilarous qualities. ‘I didn’t think you’d go woke Julie’, ‘chode’, ‘splitting the G’ - Back To The Womb could be used as a future time capsule of vernacular British language. Perfectly delivered with an acutely wry and massively understated tone, Walker’s short vignettes go everywhere and nowhere, scouring the racks of his local CEX to downing VKs in his local Wetherspoons. This is England?? It is for us. (Mint / New).
Tracklist
A1 Julie's Gone Woke
A2 Nanny
A3 Drenched In Feedback
A4 Where Did He Go
A5 The Hub I Run With
A6 Do You Know Where The Ground Is?
A7 Walker 18
A8 Target Man
A9 1998
A10 The Spines
A11 Dyspraxia Bay
A12 Little Omens
B1 I Love My Soaps
B2 Tatchell Of The Straights
B3 Gobsmacked!
B4 Cassio
B5 Sellotape
B6 Russell Walker's 18th Birthday
B7 Sleeping Is A Young Man's Game
B8 The Quest
B9 This Could Be The Last Time
B10 The Cloud Stands Up
B11 The Restaurant Was Me
B12 Untitled
B13 Chariots Of Fire
