Title: Bangles meet the Ramones, sung by Japanese Barbie wannabes.
Product review: Shonen Knife makes Aqua look like Jethro Tull. This Japanese trio mixes bright, melodic pop with positively surreal lyrics, enhanced by the deeply fractured English. Songs like 'Twist Barbie' (a paean to Barbie that pre-dates the infamous Aqua song) and 'Flying Jelly Attack' (with its chorus of 'jelly jelly jelly jelly jelly jelly jelly beans') make up in sheer irrepressible good humour what they lack in lyrical sophistication. But like anything else that's sweet and fizzy, Shonen Knife rapidly becomes cloying. It's a good antidote to the evening news, but not a CD you'll be listening to on continuous loop (unless you want your sugar-shocked neighbours to start pounding on the walls).
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