4 Legs Good, 12 Legs Better

Happycasio! are the Animal Farm of modern popular music, before it all started getting tricky, and Snowball nicked off. And that makes me a bit teary.

To explain this sudden emotional excess on what is otherwise an ordinary Friday morning, let us consider the Happycasio! equation:

Vocals lost somewhere in a Bermuda Triangle of Ian Curtis, David Bowie and Tilt-ing Scott Walker

PLUS

Genius duelling naked guitars, who like each other really, and make up in every song

PLUS

Textbook Korg squeaks, squirts and bellows

PLUS

PiL-ed up bass lines, and reservedly manic drums

EQUALS

Epic pop that makes me cry.

Now, be cautioned, mix this up all wrong, and it's a mess. Too many egos sneaking up the volume and it falls apart. Anyone happy taking a supporting role, and it becomes pointless. Be cautioned, but worry not.

The possibly disparate parts of the 'Casio! understand that together we stand to an almost sickening extent, that allows them to make such massively proportioned pop songs, that they can whack in a couple of different choruses, take off at a tangent without due care or attention for anyone else, and still bring it all together in a six minute song that flies by. They've got it so right, it makes me weep. Bless.

Their myspace has got songs to listen to, you can download more songs here, and you can contact the band to try and get hold of their first two EPs which they put on their own Human Error label (which they assure us is proper like). They've got a third EP which will probably be called Bow Wow Wowie out imminently. You should have them all really, shouldn’t you. Hmm.

Happycasio! – Jeremy Clarkson

Happycasio! – Starting To Get Angry