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6. Bunny Album - 26/4/01
So last Tuesday night with one cancellation and two no shows I went along to Straightedge to drown my sorrows. I guess everyone was at Karisma. Never mind, DJ Ju, I’ll come again if you promise not to play any Feeder, or Limp Bizkit, or…well I’ll send you the list. I was anticipating a weekend of cover band desperation when the four horsemen of the discotheque came to my rescue – Bunny with a promo copy of their new forthcoming album Big Evil Skeleton Show No Mercy. Doncaster’s psychedelic mafia have produced an album of brilliant stereoscopic beauty that has nationwide distribution and universal appeal.
Urgent, incessant keyboard carries track one Audio Landscape through a headrush of paranoia. Diamante has a more laidback dance feel with mellow trumpet and nasal keyboard opening out into rich rocked up sections. Day-Glo Apparatus contrasts dreamy twinkle verse with bass-driven neck aching chorus. Then just when you think you’ve caught the drift you get some Cajun Mariachi band from a Cheech and Chong film the Wrong Side of Nowhere. The neon happy punk of Hot Rodeo is followed by the space invading drum barrage of Liar Bait then back to the latino with the hook line you’ll be singing in your sleep. I don’t want to be your piņata cos piņatas are being abused! Leaving us on a menacing note with cello, early fifties sci-fi sound effects and the drumming of Animal with a chemical tolerance, Stunt is an epic of epic proportions.
At first you’d be mistaken for believing that Bunny are quirky, but they’re no disco lives reactionaries. It would take less time to ask who they aren’t influenced by. What they’ve come up with is a style of their own and that is something to be applauded in the mono-pop engineered times we live in. Before you start thinking I’ve got a Bunny shrine in my innermost sanctum I will say that the production is a bit flat which nullifies some of the drums impact and the bassline’s a bit dodgy on track five.
To sum up, the Pixies kidnapped by the Magic Roundabout and held to ransom in a Scorcese film. I hope that makes everything clearer.
If that’s got you all excited, Bunny are playing Magedelens on Tuesday night, come along as the DJ’s great too and the album will be on sale.
