OOOH! the latest album by Toronto Alternative legend Alex Bad Baby Lukashevsky who this time around recorded with help from Cocoa Corner who feature his son Charlie Lukashevsky along with Aidan McConnell, Barry Harris, Jack Johnston, Evan Cartwright and special guest Meg Remy. The album was recorded at Sound Department Toronto and produced by Partick Lefler and mixed by Matt Smith.
The album opens with Last Herald a very wonky funktronica song with sinuous jazz bass, odd sounds and time signatures, this is disconcerting in ways, on one hand it's soulful and jazzy, yet on another it's tripped out weirdness.
Mo**real those stars aren't covering up the NT of Montreal, they clearly want to be Mo**Real while they list things they don't want done to them, they just want to be in the moment feeling real to the sound of the steel pan and oddly almost out of tune guitars.
No One Can Sing That Well is certainly true for this band, while they sound like they want to resurrect the Giorno Poetry Systems album series, this would fit nicely on one of those odd compilations, next to something by R. Stevie Moore. While being worth hearing for the Big Bill Broonzy namecheck.
Preference Is A Good Friend, Mind takes the odd pan percussion and out of sync semi riff, allowing Alex to meander over the music, while trying to convince us all we need more preference as you can both win and lose at life.
That Musician That's Dead is a great song title, we have all had conversations that feature that line, while not being able to recall who the hell we are reminiscing about, is it that guy from The Styrenes, you know the one that was in Electric Eels or something, what's his face, this has a bunch of odd weird ideas breaking through, including the death throes grunts towards the end of the tune.
The album closes with Things Keep Happening for all 10 minutes of it, from pots and pans percussion, 50's beat jazz poetry reading, Gauloise smoke seeping through the clocks, Meg Remy's vocals sound like she's drunk half a pint of brandy to warm up, ready to travel the spaceways to Jupiter and mars, without any promises of wobble board synths, odd guitar strains with Nova Express on their minds, this tripped out tale, the one tune I want to hit repeat on, to try to work out everything that keeps happening in the lyrics.
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