The Poppermost

Before diving into I Don’t Want To Know it’s worth mentioning the history of The Poppermost up to this point. Between 2020 & 2021, Kane wrote & produced several singles, an EP & the album Hits to Spare. More recently, Kane was joined by Craig McGown, Ross Wilson & Richard Anderson, to fill out the rhythm section on Les Poppermost EP.

Each release features a distinct & evolving sound, crafted in Kane’s “Fabbey Road” garage studio. From Hits to Spare, tracks like In & Out & Laziest Fella In The Realm show a lyrical and instrumental blend that creates a vivid Poppermost soundscape. In tandem, rockers like Yes It’s True, and Well I Will capture Kane’s performative energy and solid riff-work.

I Don’t Want To Know opens with a brief & sufficiently trippy guitar, then shifts into richly textured & rhythmically looping folk-pop. Kane makes his guitar work sound almost like a harpsichord, creating a beautiful blend between his Gibson J-160E & Framus 12-string.

..layered instrumentation featuring reversed and effect-heavy guitar, as well as organ/piano fills at several breaks in the vocals. It catapults the band (and Kane’s production) into an era of psych-pop & innovative instrumentation..

..a deviation from The Poppermost’s norm of catchy, though relatively simple lyrical structure. Singing on the realities of life which many people quite frankly “don’t want to know,” the writing is a step in the right direction, as the lyrics have a certain eerie, yet positive quality to them.