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• Product of Hal Camplin/Barry the Badger’s human-mustelid interface, Badgertrap’s follow-up to ‘Human Sweet Shop’ is a suitably hybrid affair: six tracks on disc, the rest as downloads. In fi-ness terms, perhaps, it sporadically climbs a notch above its predecessor (hell, it even sounds a bit disco-y in places – if you shut your eyes) but live experiencees of the Full Barry will delight in its ferocious refusal to ornament spectacularly idiosyncratic short-sharp musings about Rolf Harris (“I want whatever Rolf Harris is on...”), messy sex-love (‘She Cld Getta’) and culture (erm, ‘Culture’) with anything other than scraggy guitar-fuzz and Meccano set drumming. Badgertrap’s take on Edward Lear’s ‘The Owl and the Pussy Cat’ truly is a chaotic, agenda-less meeting of great genius-lunatic minds. (Tom Phillips)
Copyright Tom Phillips 2011
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