Trucker-rock superstar would-bes GINTIS return with their much-anticipated second full length offering this spring, with W&H able to reveal that despite the band's trademark DIY ethics and rough-edged ramshackle approach, they've gone and done things 'properly' this time.
The record is set for release in April through THE LOUNGS' own label Fresh Hair Records and the benefits of a 'proper' studio and a producer are immediately apparent. Credit to the label though, this blatantly professional approach was instigated at no sacrificial cost to the band's music.
Still shambolic, still strangely uplifting, fans of the underachieving Welsh nationals will be relieved to note that their heroes continue to 'speet' in the face of over-sincerity.
Falling just on the bright side of laughable simplicity, the 6 minute 40 second opener 'Half As Much' is followed by the marvellous, gain-high guitar solo based, organ-fattened 'Shoop Song' (a.k.a. 'The Overdraft Song'), a relic reworked from their 2007 debut album 'Happy Drunken Accidents'.
Insane, banal but warm and somehow endearing, 'The Bakery Song', an examination of the realities of mundane employment, spells out the routine before dissolving in a sea of shambolic harmonies.
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The feelgood factor is cranked up with carefree abandon amidst the hammond-esque havoc of 'The Waltzer Song', an uptempo ditty that sticks in the mind thanks to those distinctive & heartwarming "Motherfucker yeah" backing vocals.
Harmonica-psychedelics and reverberating echo-chamber percussion precede the accordion drive of 'Your Brother's A Prick' (and just in case that hasn't put paid to the track's chances of radio playlist inclusion, he turns out to be a "c**t" as well).
Elsewhere, the band's infallible charm and stoner ethics pave the way for the blissfully self-depreceating 'I Know That I Think I'm Right'.
Full of warmth and packed with 'so-bad-it's-good' appeal, 'Idiot Guides and Plans' is a record that like as not could well end up charming your very socks off.
Fresh Hair Records online
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