Milk Kan – ‘Bling Bling Baby’ (Play It Again 7) Released 05/12/05

Honestly, folk-punk-pop has never sounded so good. Milk Kan’s ‘Bling Bling Baby’ is a quirky, vibrant and even chaotic musical hybrid armed with a cheeky cockney chappy frontman who barely stops for breath as he narrates a critique of the superficial post-millennial world – eg “So keep on running on your treadmills and chocking on your vitamin pills,” oooh, how potent. Still top marks for the ‘doing’ noises. Elsewhere there’s the more folky ‘Real Fake World’ (another swipe at society – a reoccurring theme perhaps?) and ‘Kill All A & R Men’ (“I don’t want your freebies… you A & R Men with your so called repertoire.”) in which the band humorously compare themselves to MC Hammer. Funny stuff, but very novelty.