Album Review Gangpol Und Mit - 1000 Softcore Tourist People Club

On French duo Gangpol Und Mit's newest full length album "The 1000 Softcore Tourist People Club", one should expect the unexpected due to the band's inclusion onto Mike Patton's Ipecac record label.    This is the third oddball release of the year that we've witnessed alongside The Go! Team's "Rolling Blackouts" and Fujiya & Miyagi's "Ventriloquizzing".    However, there is little consistency in Gangpol Und Mit's 2011 entry and it occasionally elicits a surprising sense of terror amongst the goofy melodies,  as can be witnessed on "From Your House to the Universe," which is typical of the artistic licence for which Ipecac is infamous.

Album Review:Fujiya & Miyagi-Ventriloquizzing

I miss art-rock bands like Art of Noise, Stereolab and Add N to X.    Fujiya & Miyagi ruined what could have been a perfectly good atmospheric instrumental album with some of the most ridiculously appalling lyrics ever recorded.    Apart from maybe 2 songs, there are some serious infractions of including horrid cliches throughout the album and as choruses no less.    If anyone knows these guys, suggest to them that they release an instrumental Ventriloquizzing and then enrol the singer into a creative writing program.    Do not be tempted by their slick and creepy video Black and Blue.    The cliches stop all too rarely on this long player.