Bombay Laughing Club - The Golden Years
Bombay Laughing Club is a curious mixture of blues, ragtime, psychedelica, and rock that is stirred, shaken, and served with a generous heap of humor. The best comparisons I can think of are the Holy Modal Rounders from the psychedic 60s and the music hall sound of The Bonzo Dog Band but the harder edged Captain Beefheart and the blues of Howlin’ Wolf are also influences. Bombay Laughing Club keeps us guessing with 14 highly varied tracks on their album The Golden Years. “Working Boy Blues” and “Kill You Dead” is coarse throated juke joint blues. “Suba Deba” is an Beefheart inspired romp that borrows from both punk and hip-hop as does the dance crazy “Space Machine. “Blue Berry” is ol’ timey madness while other tracks like “Jumping Bridge” and “Yak”confound easy classification. I really like this album but even if you don’t, you will certainly not be bored.
The album is available in 256kbps MP3.
