David Shrigley Gets Worried about Liars, TV On The Radio...

“I didn’t make a record. I couldn’t be bothered to make a record. It would have been too difficult. It was easier not to make a record.”

The words of Glaswegian absurdist David Shrigley regarding his LP-sized book of song lyrics Worried Noodles, released in 2006. Unfortunately it was missing one crucial component - the music.

No longer. Tomlab have assembled artists ranging from Liars to David Byrne, Deerhoof to Grizzly Bear and Islands to Franz Ferdinand, leaving them to their own devices to produce a composition citing Shrigley's absurd scrawlings from said book.

Again titled Worried Noodles, it will be released as a 3xLP and/or a 2xCD, the latter with a 106-page hardback book of Shrigley's work, on October 23.

trrracklisting…
Roger Ferguson – ‘Welcome Singer’
Christopher Francis - ‘One’
Grizzly Bear – ‘Blackcurant Jam’
R. Stevie Moore – ‘Live In Fear’
Phil Elvrum & Nick Krgovich - ‘Watcha Doin’'
Scarlett’s Well - ‘Maybe’
Psapp – ‘Sad Song’
Aidan Moffat & The Best Of’s - ‘Your Hands Are Cold’
Yacht – ‘I Saw You’
Simon Bookish – ‘Prince Of Wales’
Deerhoof – ‘You, Dog’
Hank – ‘Baby’s Bible’
Marriot 1262 (TV On The Radio Portland Chapter) - ‘Sweet, Sweet, Sweet Potato’
David Byrne – ‘For You’
James Chadwick – The Wooden Floor’
Islands - ‘Joy’
Cotton Candy – ‘A Sentimental Song’
Franz Ferdinand - ‘No’
Alig Fodder – ‘The Hole’
Cibelle – ‘Elaine’
Dirty Projectors – ‘Come Forward’
The Curtains - ‘Show Me The Way Things Work’
Max Tundra – ‘A Truce’
Munch Munch – ‘A Squirrel’
Liars – ‘Panic Button’
Tussle (ft. David Shrigley) - ‘A Clash Of Heads’
Trans Am – ‘The Film’
John Shankie – ‘A Song’
Scout Niblett – ‘The Bell’
Final Fantasy - ‘Joys’
Mt. Eerie – ‘A Sentimental Song’
The Dead Science - ‘Once I Found A Diamond’
Lord Cut Glass - ‘Maybe’
Per Francine – ‘Another Song’
Hot Chip - ‘No’
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - ‘The Pretty Girl’
Mitch Friedman - ‘Awesome’
Pyrolator & Stoya - ‘Elaine’
Les Georges Leningrad - ‘Manager And Coordinater Of Prostitutes’

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