Twink: Sugar Trip
So
what you’ve got here is a write up of a mini vinyl album. Sugar Trip is a
beautifully colored 33⅓ mini LP
with two songs on each side.
The
title track starts us with a bouncy toy piano intro that takes us on a
wonderfully bizarre trip of sounds from a dimension of psychedelic splashed
bunnies. There is a sly undercurrent here that reminds me of the tinkle of old
school amusement parks as filtered through a grand wizard of a 90’s DJ.
Mike
Langlie is the amazing dude behind Twink. He performs his crafty music on toys
and electronics. With that simple credit, Twink creates a wall of inner child
fun music.
The
whimsy on display here is so kooky it’s impossible not to dig it. The second
track on side A, “Uh Uh Oh” goes in as many directions as a day glow bouncy
ball. Just when you think you have that song nailed down, it jumps off in some
other charming direction.
Side
B takes off with Fruitbat. A fun flight of fancy. Very beat driven and brief as
a hopping bunny playing synths.
Finally
we have The Return of Doctor Eelsleeves. The title of this song alone is
awesome. It could have easily been the title to a track on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band. This one is a wobbly cacophonic spritely mish mash of a tune
that re-invents itself in seconds. At a little over four minitues this is the
longest track. Twink Prog?
This
download/vinyl album is another grand addition to the amazing collection of
Twink recordings.
You
can take the Sugar Trip here:
Yours in super cool tunes,
Count Robot
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