Rating: NNN
These days if you’ve got a freaky improv combo that you’re hoping will click with the hipster crowd, you’ll need at least a ukulele, glockenspiel or melodica as a feature instrument. Blah Blah 666’s Justin Haynes, Ryan Driver, Tania Gill and Nick Fraser aren’t taking any chances and use them all prominently on the jaunty avant-folk jams of It’s Only Life.
The enjoyably loopy results – they cover La Cucaracha and the Mexican Hat Dance – seem better suited to Corona-sipping back-porch BBQs than a Ph.D thesis in advanced composition, and judging by their charming matching-shorts-‘n’-T-shirts bandwear, that’s exactly what they were shooting for.
Top track: Chico Lympico
