SEEN the video for this one yet? It's chicken served inna oriental stylee. All seems well, as the lady from Lamb goes for a weird warble with the spooky back catalogue of Portishead and the shrieks of some funny old blues singer from the Forties. Then they hit the chorus and - boom! - her head turns into a rubber monster's bonce, complete with fangs and scales, that inflates to giant size and snaps at the bloke for no particular reason other than it can and it will.
What does it all mean? Did he forget to buy the milk on the way back from the station? Was he paying too much attention to the girl with the come-hither eyelashes at her sister's birthday party? God knows, but it's brutal and funny and nasty and delicious and the kind of thrashy but sophisticated dance tune that leaves you wondering whether the correct response is to mosh or start sipping an expensive cocktail. Hmmm. Crazy scenes, man.
review: Ian Watson
nicked from 'Melody Maker', dated 27 March 1999
