Mental As Anything - Espresso Bongo
July 11 1980
Mental As Anything
Espresso Bongo
Genre: Australian Pop Rock
2.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Come Around
I don’t know who was in charge of labeling this over at the ol’ Apple Music factory but this is definitely NOT “Hard Rock”, guys.
It’s pop rock in the Split Enz vein.
The songs are appropriately bizarre: “Troop Movements in the Ukraine”? A song about a “Semitrailer”? A “Missing Plane”?
Trouble is, they aren’t very interesting.
If you’re gonna sing about an “Insect Liberation” I want them to be warrior bugs and wear pirate suits. Not this.
This sounds like a wedding band that tried to write their own material. And did not succeed.
Harmless.
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