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Poltergeeks is the Penpushers fourth album and the third in their Trilogy "Our Golden Age Of Invention".
01 Hero Today Gone Tomorrow
02 Forever Miscellaneous + Misunderstood
03 Fear Not The Accusations Of A Thousand Index Fingers...
04 Broken Man
05 Fairy Press
06 Breathe Deeply
07 Silicon Infants
08 Fair Weather Friend
09 Goodman Speakers Are Shit!
10 Mermaids Tail
11 Victim Of A Car Crash
12 Poltergeeks
"Refusing to nice it up or court the commercial market, Penpushers reinvent themselves with each release. The addition of Jane Gilbert (last seen on Livesciences' LP) serves to underscore the neo-classical tragedies of Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow and the Yeats-quoting Breathe Deeply, rather than polish them. Lyrics relentlessly infected with futurism are spit back and forth in recognisably Edinburgh flows that have matured far beyond the acrobatics of the 'Our Golden Age of Invention' EPs. The Anticon echoes are less audible - 'Poltergeeks' is the sound of a band re-addressing their lyrical concerns. Lines like: "If it takes a backpack to make a terrorist / Then I'm guilty every day," connect them to the skateboarders' vernacular of the East Coast. The Brain's production is superlative; the scratching restrained but intricate, his dubbed-out approach to guitar riffs and organ signatures refined to the point of slickness. One in the eye for those who fail to see that Scottish hip-hop is in the ascendant - Penpushers are leading the pack."