Formats
VB06 - LP
655037000617
Details
For fuck’s 1996 sophomore release, the band got sophomoric: the playing got more playful, and the lyrics got more nonsensical. Yet, from late-night confessional “Swinger” to the bare-boned sigh of “Whimper and Cry,” the band still embraces languor and melancholia. Unlike the band’s even-handed debut album, Pretty... Slow, this batch of songs careens multi-directionally— toy piano and baby grand! “Rococo” pops, “Tired” rocks, “Loosened Mind?” ups the weird, and “Talent, OR” goes full CinemaScope. From realizing “I am almost like a girl” to the hope that “black and white will soon be brown and gold” on their ode to Neil Young (“Ballet High”), the future of identity politics is nailed in 2:27. Think Jonathan Richman’s whimsical sincerity battling the obfuscation of Erik Satie: Baby Loves A Funny Bunny imbues both yin and yang. Schizo? Maybe. Let’s call it delightfully unpredictable.
Tracks
1. Boy Meets Girl 2. Swinger
3. Love Me 2 4. Flight Of The Mongeese
5. Tired 6. 22 No 7. Nice Burg, Lettuce
8. Talent, OR 9. Ballet High
10. Part Of Me 11. Rococo
12. Like You 13. Loosened Mind?
14. Crush A Butterfly
15. Whimper And Cry
16. Talent, OR (Reprise)(vinyl bonus track)
digital bonus live tracks:
17. Like You
18. Soldier?s Joy
19. Monkey Does His Thing
(Crocodile, Seattle, 4/2/96)
20. Dawnji Poo
21. Loosened Mind?
Press
Vinyl reissue of second album from 1996 by
SF / NYC DIY band