An obvious choice. Firstly, there's the techy-collage artwork, then the ultra-silly Pants Pants Pants band name, the album title Pop Songs To Make Us Famous and finally track titles such as Hovercraft Traffic Music, Zupakraut, Sensible Gangsta and Squeeze It. That gives a pretty good indication what delights this album might contain.
The album starts with Born In The BBS, a gradually building synth and guitar jam with a subtle, ethnic-toned underbelly and vocal sample. Surprisingly raucous and thankfully a good start with a pleasing FSOL feel. Talking of feeling, Squeeze It instantly brings in the expected comedy as a deadpan pseudo-European voice and a humorous rap vocal work around some catchy electro instrumentation. "Please to let me squeeze it!" indeed.
Amongst all the tongue-in-cheek pick 'n' mix electro, Dance and Mildly Delicious sit with a solid Orbital quality in parts, nicely mixed with pleasant grooves. Likewise Fabio Salsa and Hovercraft Traffic Music are worthy gimmick-free instrumentals. They all work well amongst the more targeted tracks.
Sensible Gangsta is an amusing track about being a prudent rapper. It includes lines such as "I wrote this rhyme on cardboard to save on paper, dog-eared the corners, no need for a stapler" and "I cut up my rhymes coz of studio time". The corny holler "even his rhymes were cheap!" about sums it up. You can't help but smile.
The final track Fear Factor is a good guitar romp featuring spidery indie-rock boy/girl vocals, a last piece of variety to round off a fun album with something for everyone.
Top Tracks: Squeeze It, Dance, Mildly Delicious, Fabio Salsa.
Verdict: Pass - my new favourite pants.
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Here are a couple of tasters I found on YouTube:
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