Label: Matador
Country: Japan
Release Date: 2000.11.14

More post-modern irony a-go-go, sliced and diced from the detritus of late ’60s and early ’70s pop culture by Japan’s swingingest kitsch merchants. “Room With a View”, for example, with its skittering harpsichord and strings and la-la choruses, could be a song Jimmy Webb forgot to give to the FifthDimension, or perhaps the theme from some alternate universe THAT GIRL tv sitcom.
Similarly, the charming flutes andchurning early ’70s bass and drums that undergird “La Guerre Est Finie” make the whole thing sound like music you’d expect to hear in a hazily photographed dialogue-less montage from a period romantic comedy. Oddly, several of the songs are preceded by spoken word intros sampled from Kermit Schafer’s old PARDON MY BLOOPER comedy albums.