Milk Kan should be horrible. That bloody awful name for one thing, coupled with the fact that they sound like Mike Skinner singing the theme to Only Fools And Horses means that it's perfectly understandable if you treat this South London duo with some degree of suspicion.
Yet one listen to Bling Bling Baby will put you right - it is, in a word, brilliant. One of the new leading lights of the 'anti-folk' movement, Milk Kan manage to mix a skiffle melody, quick-fire lyrics bemoaning the state of society and a huge dollop of Dylan's Subterrean Homesick Blues and come up with something you won't be able to stop playing. You may find Simon Mackrell's overtly cockney vocals grating, but when it's set to a tune as infectious as this it really doesn't matter.
Also keep an eye out for the even better B-side Kill All A&R Men - any song that quotes MC Hammer and gets away with it is surely in the realms of genius. It all marks Milk Kan out as one of the names to watch in 2006. Still a bloody awful name though.
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