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Sam Duckworth is Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., the Southend-born troubadour who named his solo project after a solution from an old Batman adventure game, surfed the enigma of it to the Top Thirty with his home-made 2006 debut album The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (an album written and recorded on a self-discovery tour of the UK). He then hooked in Kate Nash and Billy Bragg to guest on the similarly successful 2008 follow up Searching For The Hows And Whys (co- produced with Nitin Sawhney), became a leading figure in the political pop scene (a pub run-in with the BNP prompted Sam to become heavily involved with the Love Music Hate Racism campaign) and helped spark the new wave of modern folk heroes that s brought us Jamie T and Jack Penate. For many less inspired artists that might be the end of their creative thrust. But when Sam came to construct his third album over two years between his Hoxton base and Brixton s Dairy Studios, he found himself with a mountain of fresh and eclectic material with no idea how to fit any of it together. I went through about seven different albums before I got to this one, says Sam, perched on a sofa in his tiny Hoxton studio. There were 100 songs knocking about, all kinds of styles. Even tracks that made the record went through ten or fifteen incarnations. At first you start off thinking I m going to do everything, I ve got a billion ideas, it s going to be completely different . Then you get into a rhythm of playing about with it.