A rather everything-including-the-kitchen-sink approach perpetrated by Daniel Kernohan (Verge Music, Spool Records) and Dan Lander, where a sort of demented carnival atmosphere is proffered for large sections of the proceedings. Think lo-tech Residents or high-tech Elephant Orchestra. 22 mostly short-ish unnamed tracks involving a variety of attacks: lumpy swing and scary circus ambiance in the opener, with free screech horns and circular dronage following, alongside a number of guess-what-the-next-sound'll-be escapades.

Various incongruous bangs, clangs, whines and hums assemble in long strings of atmosphere, occasionally punctured by a wheezing harmonica or blatting trumpet. A short eruption of urgent vocalizing and metal drum pounding gives way to an unhinged children's play-along. Lounge-lizard saxing meets bowed metal screech and bang.

These Canadians are definitely having a lot of fun and it's all very well recorded and assembled. The catalog number for the disc, Spurn 1, is amended by a note: Spurn is Spool's irreverent series. Indeed.