White Bread Black Beer

White Bread Black Beer
Studio album by Scritti Politti
Released	May 29, 2006
Recorded	2005-2006
Genre	Pop/Post-punk/New Wave
Length	51:11
Label	Rough Trade
Producer	Green Gartside, Andy Houston
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Scritti Politti chronology
Anomie & Bonhomie (1999) White Bread, Black Beer (2006)

White Bread Black Beer is the fifth studio album from vocalist and guitarist Green Gartside's band Scritti Politti. It features the single "The Boom Boom Bap". For this album Gartside returned to Rough Trade Records, with whom he had recorded his first album back in 1982 (during his then band's 'post-punk' period). Since then Scritti Politti had been signed to Virgin and the previous three albums have been known for their highly-produced sound. White Bread, however, marks a return to a more minimalist style, recorded and mixed at Gartside's home in East London.

The album was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Award and has been critically regarded as one of 2006's finest leading Gartside to perform his first worldwide gigs in almost 25 years.

The Boom Boom Bap was released as a single from the album, reaching #10 in the UK Indie charts. It was listed as the 412th best song of the 2000's by Pitchfork.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Green Gartside

1. "The Boom Boom Bap"
2. "No Fine Lines"
3. "Snow in the Sun"
4. "Cooking"
5. "Throw"
6. "Dr. Abernathy"
7. "After Six"
8. "Petrococadollar"
9. "E Eleventh Nuts"
10. "Window Wide Open"
11. "Road To No Regret"
12. "Locked"
13. "Mrs. Hughes"
14. "Robin Hood"

Trivia

• The sleeve design is based on a stitch pattern created by Green's wife Alys.
• The sleeve notes give thanks to David Gamson and Fred Maher, who were the other two main players within the band's line-up for both the Cupid & Psyche 85 and Provision albums.
• There has been speculation over whether After Six is named for its position in the track listing (i.e. it being song seven) or not, as there is no mention of its title within the lyrics.