Arriving in 1982, this album landed at the halfway mark between The Kinks' Lola vs Powerman (1970) and Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand (1994), and that feels about right. It's on one hand a shamelessly retro album, blending garagey crunch (two Creation covers!) with Daviesian half-sneers for contemporary Britain. On the other hand, it's a wanderingly adventurous set that would fit right alongside the best of the American underground of the 80's and 90's, full of half ideas, dissonant tones, and buzzing electronics, unfurling across a Pollardian 16-track sprawl.
Which is all to say: great, weird, inventive fun, heaped with ideas and slathered in wry, offkilter wit 4/5
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