Saturday, June 2, 2018

Twink: Sugar Trip


Twink: Sugar Trip
            So what you’ve got here is a write up of a mini vinyl album. Sugar Trip is a beautifully colored 33 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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