White Bread, Black Beer is a beautiful expression of the creative energy Gartside had sustained over two decades at that point. 

Humbly described by Green on release as “an album of me playing around in the back room... just me alone at home” ‘White Bread, Black Beer’ was universally acclaimed.

Described as return to the top by The Guardian, & the best record of this restlessly self-critical career by Uncut and a sophisticated, gloriously gentle thing by Pitchfork, the record was duly nominated for the 2006 Mercury Prize