Customer Reviews

Anthology of Infection 2

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Ego Plum's music is a wondrous amalgam of humor, mystery, nostalgia, cartoon-like riffs, and twisted off-beat melodies. He will make you laugh out loud. Something odd is happening. Lynchian. Mixing a childlike optimism with a circus sideshow of freaks. Original and unforgettable. In The Land Of Milk & Money

Like tiny dancing clowns climbing out of an oversized car, this CD turns circus music right on it's head. Instrumental, mostly electronic and sorta dinky sounding, with some good rockin' bass, guitars and drums thrown in here and there, but mostly like accordion and cheesy organ sounds with a variety of (electronic?)xylophone/glockenspiel type things. It sounds like Ego Plum, whoever that is, overscored the hell out of a children's movie and accidentally transformed the whole movie into a gothic circus-inspired horror film.

Some of this really does sound like music from a kid's show, like maybe Rugrats or something. Doesn't Mark Mothersbaugh do the music for that? Makes sense. There's alot of Devo in here, too. Like Devo in a creepy-carnival mood instead of you know, a plasticy Devo-type mood.

I listen to this almost every day. And that's what really matters. I'd really give this more like a 4 1/2 than a 4. It's a rare and unique pleasure.

Like a rowdy miniature circus. Some of it sounds like music from a kid's show. Some of it sounds like Danny Elfman with a low budget and some anger to work out. Fun, syncopated little songs with electronics and some real guitars and stuff that all sound like a devo/carnival/residents soundtrack to a crazed kid's show in hell. Does that make any sense? It mkes me do silly little dances, and I NEVER do that. It's (almost) all instrumental, and still there are many little stories told. This a is a fun CD that probably sounds much better than my above description. I listen in the morning, and it's mechanical nature kinds of moves me through the morning. SeeYA