Name: Divine Comedy, T: Bang Goes The Knighthood
Brand: VITAL-DIVINE COMEDY
SKU: 1422460
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Album: Divine Comedy, T: Bang Goes The Knighthood
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Down in the Street Below	More Info...	0:05
2)	The Complete Banker	More Info...	0:03
3)	Neapolitan Girl	More Info...	0:02
4)	Bang Goes the Knighthood	More Info...	0:02
5)	At the Indie Disco	More Info...	0:03
6)	Have You Ever Been in Love	More Info...	0:03
7)	Assume the Perpendicular	More Info...	0:04
8)	The Lost Art of Conversation	More Info...	0:04
9)	Island Life	More Info...	0:04
10)	When a Man Cries	More Info...	0:04
11)	Can You Stand Upon One Leg	More Info...	0:03
12)	I Like	More Info...	0:03

Album: Divine Comedy, T: Bang Goes The Knighthood
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Down in the Street Below	More Info...	0:05
2)	The Complete Banker	More Info...	0:03
3)	Neapolitan Girl	More Info...	0:02
4)	Bang Goes the Knighthood	More Info...	0:02
5)	At the Indie Disco	More Info...	0:03
6)	Have You Ever Been in Love	More Info...	0:03
7)	Assume the Perpendicular	More Info...	0:04
8)	The Lost Art of Conversation	More Info...	0:04
9)	Island Life	More Info...	0:04
10)	When a Man Cries	More Info...	0:04
11)	Can You Stand Upon One Leg	More Info...	0:03
12)	I Like	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Neil Hannon's tenth full-length album under the Divine Comedy banner finds the jovial tunesmith expounding on the elegant, aristocratic chamber pop that has become his forte since the project's inception over two decades ago. The lighter, more orchestral tone that began with 2004's glorious Absent Friends is in full effect on Bang Goes the Knighthood, a breezy 12-song concoction of witticisms and laments populated with the usual assortment of hopeless romantics, ballers, and gadflys and clueless upper-class youth. Hannon's fetish for Scott Walker/Burt Bacharach/Oscar Wilde-isms comes full circle on the theatrical opener, "Down in the Streets Below"; the jaunty "Neapolitan Girl" skips effortlessly through the city on a foundation of Serge Gainsbourg strings; and "The Lost Art of Conversation" celebrates the great orators of politics, philosophy, and literature with one of the more effortless piano-driven Beatlesque melodies that the artist has crafted to date. Not very powerful stuff, but Hannon's built a career on being the tipsy and outgoing though secretly lonesome partygoer on the veranda with the best jokes, and while the whole affair can feel a bit slight, it's certainly never dull. Cheers. ~ James Christopher Monger

Professional Reviews

Spin - "Three decades and ten album into a stealth career as one of pop's greatest unsung tunesmiths, Neil Hannon keeps the in-a-perfect-world hits coming....Just beautiful."

Pitchfork (Website) - "It works for a few reasons. The most basic is that he has a great voice, and he backs it up with uncanny musical smarts -- the man knows how to arrange a song."