JIM AND THE FRENCH VANILLA - Afraid of the House LP hip hop it’s now such a wonderful

it’s now such a wonderful mess of sounds just falling all over each other in the best of ways

intertwining currents of memory

and before you know it Meg’s whisper has made its way inside you

Rough As Guts lives up to its title - it’s a shit-kicking no-shit-giving hard-ass of a record

skeletal drum machinery – but the execution follows a more disembodied

JIM AND THE FRENCH VANILLA - Afraid of the House LP hip hop it’s now such a wonderfulIncludes digital download. For fans of Thee Oh Sees and The Spits. Jim And The French Vanilla is the solo project of Jim Blaha from The Blind Shake. This is his third album under this moniker, the first two albums were acoustic, one man band affairs, but on Afraid Of The House Jim (along with his brother bandmate in Blind Shake Mike Blaha) expands to a full band sound, to astonishing effect. The basic songwriting retains the incredibly distinctive