#1257 Gruff Ryhs - Hotel Shampoo

A nearly completely forgettable album, loungey and repetitive and small, with none of the boldness of Gruff's Super Furry Animals days. Consider tracks 6 and 7, Conservation Conversation and Sophie Softly, neither of which gets beyond noting that their title words kinda sound kinda neat together. Maybe it's all a conceptual play about everyday banality? Regardless, other than maybe the horn bursts on Christopher Columbus the whole thing is just barely there, an underwhelming disappointment 2/5