The Cesarians – I'm With God CD

The Cesarians – I'm With God CD 

The Cesarians were born in Hackney, the London borough synonymous with poverty, punk, and politics, a district that mixes multi-culture with gangster glamour. It was here, one winter, in a damp pub cellar, that the legendary producer, Craig Leon, first auditioned the band. Whisking them off across town to the leafy and gentile environs of St John s Wood, they cut their debut album in Abbey Road s infamous studio 2. But London was not their calling. They set off, touring Europe, gigging the major cities - Paris, Barcelona, Lisbon, Zurich, Berlin and Rome - and feverishly playing all the towns in between as if in search of another home. Returning from a show in Prague at the dead end of 2010 they got the call. How about Christmas in Italy? Well naturally. Wasn t it here that the great English Romantic poets chose to winter? But this wasn t to be a time of hibernation for the Cesarians. Though they had found a home away from the London snow, in the shadow of the Apennine, they also found a studio. And as England dozed, fed up with it s bland seasonal faire, The Cesarians were cooking. The result: A blistering new five track EP that the moves from the brooding menace of In Your House to the orchestrated and opiated haze (and highs) of I m With God . It screams and blasphemes with Clash like savagery in the anthemic Worst Thing then redeems it s self sweetly with the sad melody of School Yard and the lonely poetry of Questa e lei . I don t believe in God . . . but I do believe in The Cesarians.