TRACKLISTING: Side A - 'It's My Part' Side B - 'It's My Part' Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs remix * yellow vinyl OVERVIEW: After a sabbatical during which Hugo Manuel released two critically acclaimed EPs under the moniker Chad Valley, Jonquil are back re-formed, refreshed and renewed with a new album in March. It’s My Part is a fitting introduction to ‘Point Of Go’, a record that is in their own words “far more poppy and accessible” than anything Jonquil have previously written. Recorded over a six-week period it takes the band's summery, afro-beat flourishes and delicately intricate guitars and strips them back to a set of immediate, direct pop songs. With influences from Fleetwood Mac to The Smiths, Chic and Earth, Wind and Fire to Arthur Russell – the quartet's third LP is an exercise in classic pop sensibilities held up by a modern backbone. “I've always found it very hard to write things that don't seem to be... obvious” shrugs Hugo. “To me it's obvious because it's good; people are expecting certain chords because it should happen. Now a quartet – Hugo Manuel, Sam Scott, Robin McDiarmid and Dominic Hand – 'Point Of Go' is their third (and yet, in a way, their first) record; an evolution, a transformation and a new start simultaneously. 'Point Of Go' will be released on Oxford's Blessing Force label – newly set up by and for a burgeoning community of musicians & artists from the area and one which also involves the Jonquil boys' other projects (Chad Valley, Solid Gold Dragons and Pocket House). The album artwork was done by Blessing Force visual artist Seb Thomas. Side B is the fantastic new remix by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.