A genuine oddity that appears innocent yet trickles from the speakers like some no quite as strange offspring of Primus, and to a lesser extent Mr Bungle, especially if the track 'Mr Blue Veins' is anything to go by. The band look like nice boy students fronted by an '80s hair metal guy, and yet the odd jerky rhythm and slightly deranged circus twiddlings makes me wonder just what possessed them! Kinda creepy, or maybe that's just my take on things, but I'm quite enjoying the melody of the choruses, 'Octopus', 'Drop Dead', 'Hammer & Nails', a funk-ridden carnival of strangeness, yet delivered with a smile. Is it for real ? Lacking the ultra sinister in-joke formula of Mr Bungle or even the cartoon leer of Primus, but striving, I feel, to create similar in-jokes and elastic oddness.
6/10
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