Award winning cabaret duo Bourgeois & Maurice release their third, and most musically ambitious album to date.

Infused with their trademark blend of darkly irreverent satire The Third is a rock-n-roll-pop-ballad-disco-fusion rollercoaster ride through 21st century life. The irresistibly anarchic mix of styles and subjects ranges from the Prince-esque Tax Me about the erotic charge of a tax return, to the David Icke inspired prog-rock epic The Lizard Men and the electronically chirpy Magnetic Fields-ish Social Networks (Make Me Feel Shit Sometimes).

"It’s hard to think of any other act delivering such clever, funny and sharp material" Time Out

The Third takes the duo’s sharp-witted lyrical satire from their live cabaret shows and develops it into a fully realised musical recording in its own right. Never ones for labels, this album sees the duo pushing and questioning what can be considered “cabaret”, treading the line between pop, musical comedy and satire.

“A guerrilla cabaret of genuinely subversive originality” The Stage

As one of London’s leading cabaret acts Bourgeois & Maurice have performed in some of the UK’s most prestigious venues including the Royal Opera House, Southbank Centre, Wales Millennium Centre and the Royal Academy of Arts. They have enjoyed sell-out shows at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and also toured the music festival circuit with appearances at Glastonbury, Latitude, Bestival, Electric Picnic and Lovebox, among others.

"Gloriously inappropriate decadence. A near-unclassifiable act with their sharp fusion of stand-up comedy and songs" The Guardian

As well as writing their own songs, B&M collaborated on a track for electronic dance duo Joe & Will Ask?’s debut album released on Deadly Records in May 2012. The resulting B&M-penned lyric “I want this song played at my funeral” was quoted in several reviews as one of the strangest lines ever to feature in a dance track. They were really proud about this.

The Third is co-produced by Ben Humphreys, who has recently worked as recording engineer on Rudimental’s number one single Feel The Love as well as their upcoming album; and Gwyneth Herbert an award-winner singer songwriter who has released albums on Universal, Blue Note and is currently signed to Naim Edge. It was engineered by J.P Buckle of The All Seeing I and Relaxed Muscle.

The Third is available to download and stream through iTunes, Amazon and Spotify or in olden-days-style physical CD from thethird.bourgeoisandmaurice.co.uk. The album coincides with Bourgeois & Maurice's first 17-show UK tour, details of which can be found at bourgeoisandmaurice.co.uk