Shonen Knife -‘Free Time (Damnably)
This is, in fact, ver Knife’s fifteenth album. Having always admired what bits I got to hear (and I still play my 12″ single of ‘Riding On The Rocket’ nineteen years later), by the end of the opening track ‘Perfect Freedom’ I want to own the other fourteen…
Japanese three-piece Shonen Knife first formed in Osaka back in 1981. Despite numer
ous line-up changes over the years, they have gone on to gain numerous famous fans (Kurt Cobain and John Peel, to name but two) and mastered their own brand of Ramones-inspired indie punk pop brilliance. This album is a non-stop load of sheer energy.
The afore-mentioned ‘Perfect Fre
edom’
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sets the tone brillaintly. There are two songs inspired by food -‘PYO’ was inspired after they visited a pick-your-own farm in Sussex, England; while ‘Rock’n’Roll Cake’ seems to be about jus
t that. ‘Rolled Cake, I want to sleep in it…like hibernation.’ OK!
It is delightfully noisy and – in the best possible way – the aural equivalent of being fed too much tartrazine and sugar when only other people have to suffer the side effects.
I’m looking forward to their E
dinburgh gig very much indeed…
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Free time is out on July 11 on Damnably.