Fixer Upper

Bandcamp lists the original double single with "The Trapper's Pelts", on July 20, 2020; Clash and Beats Per Minute dated it July 21 and the Line of Best Fit July 28. The line-up was Smith on vocals, George Townend on drums, Sammy Robinson on guitar and Needham on bass, who hand-printed the sleeve. Ross Orton mixed it, and Bill Ryder-Jones produced the other side. It is a satire of Graeme (also spelled Graham), a self-satisfied provincial man with a property portfolio and Prosecco who is dismissive of media degrees. Smith said Graeme was inspired by an amalgamation of people on his street growing up, that everyone knows a Graeme, and that he is not a bad man at heart, he just sincerely believes he is from a country and generation that achieved the apex of everything. The Line of Best Fit says it was written between two rooms of Needham's house.

Clash compared it to Happy Mondays' Bummed and Section 25, and the Line of Best Fit called it a perfect slice of post-punk orchestration. Smith told NME it was kinda like a joke got out of hand, and that BBC 6 Music played it daily for a month. Setlist.fm counts 200 plays, eighth among 56 songs. We found no chart peak, video, covers or samples, and do not know whether our upload is the studio single.