Labels: Southern
Review by: Ewan
“It’s raining men, hallelujah”
The first line of the album definitely wrongfooted me. The Weather Girls lyric sounds odd placed in Boduf Song’s music. It’s a trick that’s repeated a few other times through the album. Occasionally a line from another pop song is put into the lyrics and it does confuse your brain a bit. In a good way though.
Musically it’s a continuation of the previous four albums on Kranky. The vocals are still very much in the breathy/slightly-distorted home/bedroom tradition and the idiosyncratic guitar lines are the still the focus of the songs. The unusual songwriting is in a similar ballpark to Angels Of Light or Current 93. I don’t think Boduf Songs will be offended if I say that they’re slightly more sane than the aforementioned pair. Maybe Neil Young in his most out-there experimental studio-abusing phases would be more like it.
This time round there’s a lot more electronics. Creaky drum machines, occasional synth lines, guitar effects and other indescribable ‘things’ blend in and out of the mix.
Essentially this is a great album by a songwriter genuinely off trying to create their own unique thing.
(P.S. Fun Fact for Collective Zine folk, Boduf Songs are ex-Minute Manifesto)