George is the name of the Manchester-based duo: Michael Varty and Suzy Mangion. A Week of Kindness is their 2nd full-length album, and the follow-up to 2003's critically-acclaimed The Magic Lantern, and, if anything, manages to surpass the heights of that debut. Theirs is a strange kind of music, not easily described: odd without flagrantness, more the result of old props and sleight-of-hand than special effects and attention seeking. It is the kind of music made by people who've been friends since school, and still use the same pre-teen electronics and percussion trolley to make old-fashioned adult music. Pickled Egg. 2005.