

It’s a glorious ditty to blow the clouds (and my hangover) away as it’s a hair and hell raising celebration of jazzy chords and earworm violin mayhem. Wouldn’t it be great in a parallel universe if Carol Decker showed up at a gig to sing ‘Black And Decker’? ‘The Donkey And The Elephant’ is a darn sight more fun than The Owl And The Pussycat as another three minute bluster (is the EP turning out like Reign In Blood?) to get you jiggy with it! If you think Primus are crazy then check out these lyrics! It gets a bit sensible midway with a bluesy jam but abnormal service is quickly resumed! It would be impossible to be statuesque for opening song ‘Statuesque’ as these three frantic minutes of ‘Go Buddy Go’ like Stranglers riffs are interspersed with jolly high kicking medieval jigs. Their releases may be as rare as rocking horse shit but they always come up smelling of roses, point proven by their garden of delights that is the just released EP Return Of The Electric Bin Bags, another collection of tunes with titles that make Half Man Half Biscuit sound like Shakespeare.

It’s always a joy to review self proclaimed “UK Goth Folk N Rollers” Cadence Noir.
