Musical Style
The band's music has been described as "rustic rock 'n' roll", resembling "a cross between the Clash and Steeleye Span". Many of the band's lyrics have countryside themes, covering topics such as fruit-picking but given a distinctive, humorous, sometimes surreal, twist. Rock journalist Maxim Jakubowski refers to the band's subject matter as "most unusual", embracing bizarre and unlikely topics such as ghosts, Vikings, dandified street gangs, burning witches, lost army platoons, wandering funerary spirits, nuclear war, haunted tea rooms, and road kill. Writer Dave Thompson described the band: "punkabilly madmen who looked at the directions drawn by Dexys on the one hand, Ten Pole Tudor on the other, and then drove a gap-toothed grinning juggernaut through the heart of all of them". Record Collector magazine, reviewing the reissued album described the band as "a theatrical, intellectual outfit with a driven sound somewhere between early Bunnymen and Southern Death Cult", calling them "a true English oddity".
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