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Whether it's Jesse Budd's beguilingly imaginative lyricism, the baroque pop rhythms, or its smiling, haunted house musicality, I keep going back to Flipron's Biscuits for Cerberus set. Any number of its fourteen nuggets from canine odes to elaborate paeans to decrepitude and death could have graced phantom airwaves as a single, but Dogboy Vs Monsters it is, and who can argue with something so ... crazily ace and surreally propulsive?
This is grand stuff, howling, wailing, keyboards squelching and parping and a crazy homemade string hybrid dancing in the wind over Budd's piquant poetry. It makes me want to serenade a passing troupe of husky dogs, if ever I see one, while the B-sides provide more alternate magic. Cartoons, Astronomy etc. is a charmed tale evoking lost eras of affectionate cartoon atmosphere, while the vocalised rendition of live, Hawaiian guitar favourite Skeletons on Holiday brings to mind magic soloist of yore Roy Smeck and even Django.
I love the description of Budd as Ivor Cutler doing Half Man Half Biscuit on a haunted Caribbean island, and I'm thinking once more that Flipron should really be gracing royal kingdoms rather than jester's caves. On the other hand, who needs all that stuff anyway? The Queen's loss is Ton Pentre and Portsmouth's gain.
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