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Flipron - Fancy Blues and Rustique
by: western4uk  21 august 04
rating: rating of 4

Papa Lazarou's House Band Come Out to Play
Where else are you gonna get an album packed with death, cars more evil than Cruella De Ville with PMT, Big Baboons and Hawaian Pineaple Headed deities? It seems appropriate somehow that the full title of the album 'Fancy Blues And Rustique Novelties' won't fit in the title field of this reveiw because the album seeks to creep up behind you to shout Boo!

To listen to this album is to enter a peculiar world where logic is fractured and the plot is more twisted than the most complex film noir you can imagine. Lyrically Flipron show deft touches of morbid humour. This is the house band of Papa Lazarou's circus straight from Royston Vasey.

Musically the instrumentation is sparse which adds to the sense of wry menace and Jesse Budd sounds a weary dissolute rake. The whole tone suits the black humour of the whole piece. It is the most amusing and lyrically clever album I've heard this year.
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