“I don’t give a flying fuck any more,” Jamie T declared emphatically on stage at Glastonbury last month. ‘The Theory Of Whatever’, his fifth album and first in nearly six years, feels like a similar declaration to the one that rang across the John Peel tent. Of course, that don’t-give-a-fuck attitude has always surged through the south Londoner’s (real name Jamie Treays) songs – often in parallel with apprehensions and insecurities, like on ‘Panic Prevention’ – but here it feels like the dominant force. “Toe the line / Hard to find,” he bellows on the chorus, staccato guitar fragments becoming more sustained, driving bursts beneath his voice. A decade-and-a-half on from his seminal debut album ‘Panic Prevention’, most of Treays’ peers that he came up with are no longer on the scene.

Source: The Star July 21, 2022 19:28 UTC