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Superman Revenge Squad is one bloke from Croydon, called Ben, and an acoustic guitar. He is sometimes joined by a man called Martin, and a cello.

Through frequent gigging and releasing CDs online, Ben has built up a loyal Superman Revenge Squad following. This is his first release through a record label. The 7 songs on this mini-album feature all his trademarks: wit and wisdom, caustic yet sweet acoustic guitar; an impassioned fragility delivered with panache and verve that’s magnetic.

Ben says: the songs were kind of inspired by me watching the start of the telly version of Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ one night, which isn’t very good really but the opening sequence is good and has a crow looking out at the camera whilst ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ by the Blue Oyster Cult plays in the background. And then, the very next day, whilst this crow was still going round my head, I found a big dead crow at the end of my road when I was walking home. And it seemed big and solid and dead. So I started writing the dead crow blues song based on this – with the message behind the song being that sometimes its nice to think about death just so that your other problems don’t seem so bad.

The other songs are all about different aspects of time passing: Meeting people again in the afterlife, a pornographic magazine taking you back to a time you were younger and at the same time reminding you that that time is gone, me looking back at a summer in my life that’s now just a memory, using computer god games to feel like you have some control other life, dying and becoming a ghost that haunts a flat… and then, an endless bottle of wine imagines nearly everyone dying and then life beginning again. So, I think, there is a link between them all. Kind of.