The Miserable Rich 
Overcome
(Rags To Ruin Records)
★★★★★

THERE is an unexpected and endearing point to The Miserable Rich’s upbeat Crows, with the savvy and resourceful birds as protagonists who navigate environmental chaos with calm and skill — slightly sinisterly, perhaps, trained to pick up cigarette butts in Sweden.

In 2017 band member’s James de Malplaquet and wife Sarah’s first son, Kit died at 13 days after contracting the cold sore virus HSV1 in hospital — misdiagnosed until it was too late. The moving and melancholic Glue was inspired by a nurse who suggested: “You must in face of the tragedy stick together like glue.”