Another Form of Relief

I love my Amazon wishlist. It’s my one holding bay for all of those lovely things I want to buy, from books to DVDs to games (and even the odd album). In fact, I’m so reliant on it at this point that I don’t know how I’d organise my entertainment purchasing without it. Sure, I don’t always buy from Amazon (I’ll go somewhere else to save 2p) but as a useful resource, it’s hard to top.

Which begs the question of why no one has written a song about it before. Far more trivial things have had songs written about them (like sex, love and war), but not one verse about our trusty online retailing organisation system? It’s madness I tell you. Which makes it all the more apt that Moustache of Insanity have gone and done it. Like all of their songs, it’s incredibly haphazard, but it possesses such a ramshackle charm that it’s impossible not to enjoy.

You can download the entire Postcards to Strangers EP from the band’s website. For limited time only apparently. Though that limited time is already a month, so who knows?

A few years ago I probably would have been defensive about liking something this. Perhaps I’d even think it was childish. Times change though, and Moustache of Insanity are right along the lines of the things I tend to listen to at this point. All of this goes hand in hand with my gradual slide further and further into indiepop. I’m not really sure when it began in earnest, sometime during the earlier years of this blog I would suspect. If you’d told me five years ago though that I’d be going to indiepop festivals on steam railways, or the kind of club night where everyone swaps a mix CD, I’d have probably laughed at you. Still, the joy of music is the constant evolution of taste. I wonder what I’ll be listening to in another five years.

So, Moustache of Insanity then. This is the kind of music that doesn’t really allow for middle ground. People will either find this a ton of fun or insufferably twee. Clocking it at barely a minute, Imagine is a joyful romp about imaginary friends, puppets, kittens, llamas and a whole lot more. With no time for any of that bullshit about world peace either.

Moustache of Insanity’s self-titled album is available now from WeePop!