With the advent of the internet, the role for the video clip seemed to be gone forever. The English duo Nizlopi proved that a good clip can still work wonders. The cartoon accompanying the song The JCB Song, about a boy sitting on the tractor with his father, ensured that the two school friends, singer Luke Cocannon and bassist John Parker, managed to reach the coveted number one position in the
… English charts in 2005. to conquer. Debut album Half These Songs Are About You ... was released in 2004 but is not released in the Netherlands until two years later. Musically the eleven, mostly acoustic songs lie somewhere in between Counting Crows and our own Racoon, with John's prominent playing on the double bass giving the whole a jazzy touch. A charming debut. (MS)more
