No recollection of how I came across Inflatable Boy Clams. They are completely in a class all their own. When searching for information about them I found other people talking about how obscure and cool they were and called them post-punk. What does that even mean anymore? Anyway, IBC is humorous, kooky, simple, complex, creative and annoying. I love it. Most people I introduce it to have a hard time getting through two songs in a row. Skeletons is th
e first track on their self-titled double 7" and it is a jumpy, tooting, whiny song that has an on the verge of being annoying melody that is provided by something that sounds like a synth pipe organ and a synth sax. Snoteleks is right after it and as it's name suggests it is Skeletons backwards. No really. It is the song Skeletons played backwards. It gives a whole new dimension to the forward version. The other track worth mentioning is called ImSorry. ImSorry has some haunted chanting in the background while there are stories told about how one of the members did something horrible to another member and they are nonchalantly sorry about it at the end of the statement. The horrible things keep getting worse throughout the song and they are hilariously delivered. It almost seems like they are improvising in this funny deadpan way trying to outdo each other each time. Please listen to this album @ least once. It's worth it if you can.
e first track on their self-titled double 7" and it is a jumpy, tooting, whiny song that has an on the verge of being annoying melody that is provided by something that sounds like a synth pipe organ and a synth sax. Snoteleks is right after it and as it's name suggests it is Skeletons backwards. No really. It is the song Skeletons played backwards. It gives a whole new dimension to the forward version. The other track worth mentioning is called ImSorry. ImSorry has some haunted chanting in the background while there are stories told about how one of the members did something horrible to another member and they are nonchalantly sorry about it at the end of the statement. The horrible things keep getting worse throughout the song and they are hilariously delivered. It almost seems like they are improvising in this funny deadpan way trying to outdo each other each time. Please listen to this album @ least once. It's worth it if you can.Click the album cover to go to their MySpace page or the photo to go to their website.
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