Mancunian bedroom multi-instrumentalist Jim Noir’s greatest success came with ‘My Patch’, a runaway single from debut album ‘Tower Of Love’ which made it onto all sorts of adverts in 2006. Far from selling out though, he’s been creating more playfully naïve Brian Wilson-inspired pop with an EP a month for the last sixteen and given them to loyal ‘Noir Club’ members online. ‘Jimmy’s Show’ is the culmination – a quirky best-of entertaining the inner child with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and psychedelic funky pop.
7/10
Words by SIMON BUTCHER