Gosh, Green seems to be losing the perfectionism a little (this is A Good Thing). Two new tracks emerged this week, one of which he just popped out a couple of weeks ago!

This is all a bit astonishing seeing as Scritti are not exactly reknowned for being prolific. In fact, they are almost a bad as my other faves, The Blue Nile and The Avalanches, in their tardiness. Thank goodness for Stephin Merritt and his steady stream of stuff (even if quality control could be a leetle tighter of late {coughs}).

The evidence for Scritti’s reticence?

Songs to Remember released in 1982. A wait of three years for Cupid & Psyche ‘85. Another three years for Provision and zilch for ELEVEN years until Anomie & Bonhomie in 1999. And then a slightly less delayed White Bread, Black Beer some SEVEN years later in 2006.
Anyway, read this from the rather wonderful source of all things Scritti, Bibbly-o-Tek:

Last night Green performed two brand new songs at The Charles Hazlewood Show (BBC2) and chats a bit about how he wrote them. No official titles for those two new songs yet. First track has the working title ‘Unfrozen’ and the second ‘Forgiven’.

Full story and interview available to download at Bibbly-o-Tek.

I decided to extract the tracks (using Fission, fabulous software) and make them available here. They are both magnificent and bode well for the next Scritti album. In 2024.

Thanks to John Hyde for making the recording available.

Download Forgiven by Scritti Politti (3.2MB Mp3)

Download Unfrozen by Scritti Politti (3.4MB Mp3)