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Apparently these guys are a “Super fly, funny band” but I wouldn’t have guessed that from the Mancunians fourth album, The Bucket; even with an April 1st release date.

Cack Records is their own label they’ve set up after previouly being with Skam Records (with the albums Eat Your Own Ears, Drawing On Other People’s Headsand The Wooden Horse Of Troy) and Köln’s Sonig label.

Having honed their whimsical leftfield electronica, “plundering the anarchic traditions of inspired lunacy from The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band to Zappa”, The Bucket starts off like an old skool mixtape with a sideways snipe at musical trends and pirate radio. But as this album goes on, you can see that they really want to be a mix of Frank Zappa and Kenny Everett with a love of “surreal comic invention with bizarre characters, ludicrous situations”. And like Zappa/Everett, sometimes they get it right and others, it’s a bit off. Radio 1/Sunday Best/Bestival/author of A-Z of Festivals and all-round funster Rob Da Bank has said, “This is exactly the kind of underground, leftfield business that keeps me alive in times of pop shite overload”. And you would expect a man who has made his name (well, at least a part of his name) with giant fancy dress parties and has the Cuban Brothers on his label to like this.

In fact, there’s a bit of vocal on ‘A Buddha Made Of Mud’ that sounds a little like Mr. da Bank but only he could play ‘Glidstep’ and tracks by Frank Turner (ex-Million Dead) and Shirley Bassie on Radio 1 on the same show. Best of the lot is hip-hop, funk rock of ‘Raven Vs. Walrus’ and the electro pop ‘Shut The Gate’ but the much anticipated ‘Winnet’s Dub Plate’ is a bit of a disappoinment and should be dumped in the bucket (with the album the title track).

It’s a bit of an assault on your senses all this lot and perhaps I’ll have to re-assess if I ever see them live.

Reviewed: Wevie Stonder - The Bucket (Cack Records) CACK01 Release date: 1st April 2009
Tracklisting:
1 Glidstep (1:50)
2 Hans Peach (3:27)
3 Small People (3:40)
4 Egg-nition (0:26)
5 Tapsus (2:50)
6 House Of Sweets (3:57)
7 A Buddha Made Of Mud (3:59)
8 Intermission (1:48)
9 Raven Vs. Walrus (4:20)
10 Shut The Gate (3:08)
11 Winnet’s Dub Plate (2:50)
12 The Bucket (4:42)

Links :
weviestonder.com
www.myspace.com/weviestonderr
www.cackrecords.com
www.skam.co.uk
www.myspace.com/skamsmak
www.sonig.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Everett
Rob da Bank :: Monday 17th November 2008
Frank Turner - ‘I knew Prufrock before he got famous’ (Xtra Mile)
Boy Crisis - ‘L’homme’ (Chess Club)
Wevie Stonder - ‘Glidstep’ (White)
Seindorff - ‘Fach Wen Menai’ (High Quality Recordings)
Shirley Bassey - ‘Spinning Wheel’ (United Artists)