Madness – Baby Burglar

The UK’s prodigal sons, Madness, are back with a new single “Baby Burglar”. Joining other singles “If I Go Mad”, “C’est La Vie” and “What On Earth Is it”, the new single has Madness’ vaudeville influences on show, horns poking through a sparse arrangement built of organ, driving drums and pulsing bass before a thumb-tack sounding piano takes the stage.

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It will be Madness’ 13th full length album, having consistently released records since they exploded from ol’ Camden town in the 70s and spearheaded a burgeoning ska scene in London.

Baby Burglar

“Baby Burglar” sets a dark mood for the album, a bossa-nova style arrangement from a vintage Yamaha organ offsetting their usual upbeat music, telling the tale of a burglar in saxophonist Lee Thompson’s house, reminding himself of the trouble he and his friends used to get up to:

“The story behind “Baby Burglar” is actually quite a funny one…it’s about Lee finding a midnight meddler loose in his house and how it reminded him of his younger self and all the shenanigans we used to get up to when we were whippersnappers.”

Theatre of the Absurd presents C’est La Vie is out November 17. Pre-order the album here.