Released : 14th February 2010
01 Crawling
02 Uncle Bill
03 Chimney Stack Builder
04 When the Moon Hatches
05 The Obfuscator
06 Marley Chain
07 Reversing the Dosage
08 Waiting for the Hedgemakers to seal me in
09 A season of sweating and farting
10 Mackintosh lady
11 Fleeing Machines
12 Unfathomable Deity
13 Navvy Work
14 Tunnel Thinking
15 Waltz of the Navvy Mood
16 A charm to keep them safe from superstition
17 Wall-Eyed Lady Thwarts
18 Good Morning Mr Well-Beloved
Part of the series of five releases of the Eddodi Saga, by "folk poet" Moff , one written last Summer (A Book Of Fretful Chums) and the other three from previous years; 2007 (The Corrosive Norm), 2009 (Blue House And Titty Bottle), and last years already released"Gravy on a plate of food" and finally this one in 2008.
Folk idioms taken to places of surreal endeavour.
Tales of another world slightly to the left and a few inches above of our own grey existence.
As usual Moff does not disappoint with a wide variety of material. And you have to take this in small doses, as it is so good, save you will miss one of the complex interactions between words, and music.
That there is no other artist remotely like this one in the current pile of CDs/MP3s that I have to review before me makes me extremely happy. To have this confection in the menu means I have a wonderful dessert I can keep going back to and enjoying again and again, away from the mundane and predictable.
It is difficult to single out any one track as the variety in the work is significant but there are the usual themes of bodily functions, grotesques who prowl the streets, and Moff's other particular objects of investigation.If you push me though, the outstanding "Navvy Work" is an immediate toe-tapper and the best piece on the album - a relentless folk march with fantastic lyrics and a sea shanty feel that also manages to sound vaguely Russian. This is followed, as part of a trilogy, with "Tunnel Thinking", which includes many elements of the previous song with a spoken word dialogue. The final part of the trilogy is a manic waltz which leaves this listener open mouthed at the juxtaposition of words, music, and chittering sounds.
Unique and compelling music that defies categorisation.
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