Jimmy's Show

Jimmy's Show is the third full-length album from Manchester, England based multi-instrumentalist Jim Noir.

The album compiles tracks taken from his members-only Noir Club releases spanning between November 2010 and February 2012.

According to AllMusic’s Tim Sendra, Jimmy’s Show is a “bubbly mixture of obscure British psych and bedroom pop, spiced with loopy lyrics and sticky sweet melodies”[2] The Clash magazine's Simon Butcher described the album as “[p]layfully naïve Brian Wilson-inspired pop”, “entertaining the inner child with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and psychedelic funky pop.”[1] The BBC’s Gary Mulholland called Jimmy’s Show “an album of perfect modern psychedelia, pristine in content but ramshackle in style, as at home with synths and drum machines as it is with acoustic guitars and martial Ringo drums, and packed full of sadness and dread and love for a ghostly choirboy harmony.”[3] A "sequel" album entitled Jimmy's Show 2 is due to be released on 5 November 2024.

Describing the album as “weird music” that “should be instantly familiar to anyone with a working history of pop music of the last 40 years”, he concluded that "Jimmy's Show is yet more proof that Noir is a pop music magician.”[2] In similar vein, the BBC’s Garry Mulholland called the album “a 13-track trip down The Beatles’ Penny Lane, blending the various song styles of Paul McCartney, Ray Davies, Brian Wilson and Gruff Rhys into a cute lo-fi celebration of a northern town on a sunny day” beneath which “misery and alienation lurks”.

[3] Despite criticising the song titles, stating they were “enough to inspire a shudder”, the NME’s Pete Cashmore praised the humour on Jimmy’s Show, calling it a “funny (peculiar) album filled with tinkles, tootles, swirls and noodles”.