Ignore the Ignorant by The Cribs

Ignore the Ignorant, the Cribs' fourth album, came out on Wichita Recordings on 7 September 2009, and it's the one with a Smith in the ranks. The Wakefield brothers, twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and younger brother Ross, had run into Johnny Marr by chance in Portland, Oregon, and asked him aboard as a touring guitarist in February 2008. They spent the rest of that year writing in Portland, Manchester and Wakefield, road-testing the new songs on a short UK run that included two nights at the Manchester Ritz.

Pre-production began in January 2009 in a rented barn out in rural Oregon City before the band moved to Seedy Underbelly Studios in Laurel Canyon to cut most of it with producer Nick Launay. Marr's chiming, tangled lines lace through Ryan's wiry yelp, and the brothers' ramshackle bash gets a wider, cleaner frame. "Cheat on Me" went out as the first single a week ahead of the album.

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