Riot Act

Originally posted July 30th 2020 on https://www.patreon.com/riotactpodcast In the second part of our mini-series of self-indulgent Rioteers Reviews (in aid of our 2nd Birthday celebrations) Steve casts a beady critical eye over I Tell My Guitar The Things I Used To Tell You, the debut 2010 EP from a certain Mr. Remfry Dedman.  Littered with Easter Eggs and references to some of the biggest artists in Remfry's music collection (Soundgarden, Glassjaw errr ..... Chopin), ITMGTTIUTTY is an inebriated emotionally scarring journey into one man's failed attempts to get intimate with a lady (sort of).  Dedman's languid gaze into the abyss stoked an unquenchable fire in the horny 20-something and he bears his soul in a po-faced, ever-so-slightly pretentious fashion.  The highly experimental artiste would often test the patience of audiences with pithy, 3-minute folk tunes stretched out to 13-minute, densely layered 20-part vocal harmony monoliths ... sort of like James Blunt meets Neurosis.  You can listen