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Up-coming Liverpool group, Happy Singing Band may be arguably verging into a unique position in the cities musical landscape but it is one that is well-deserved if listening to the hearty psychological mix that resides in their lengthy but creative song Yung Casserole.

The glare and the dramatic stance that is undertaken when a nuclear like fusion takes place between the energetic feel of grunge respectful nod to freebase Jazz is mixed with the outpouring of wanting to take the Progressive ambience to a dirtier, more beautifully constructed level; a new variation on soup for the masses but one that has been intelligently designed and full of warmth, even if it might take some time to get used to.

Yung Casserole is a mixture that defies many conventions and perhaps the closest embodiment to liken it to would be the early destructive power that sits happily unseen and untarnished in Brand X. To some this might be a dirty word to far, like taking Yung’s partner in psychological gambling and asking him what it means when you dream of certain parts of the body, some answers defy the question after all. For it is meant as no insult to bring up Brand X, much maligned but adept perfectly as what they do and like Happy Singing Band, they do it very well.

The music is encased without hindrance by some very good musicianship and is overall earthy un unbound, it is the archetypal analyst dream performance, one that requires little or no lyrics, just a song that is aching, demanding to be heard on a larger scale.

Yung Casserole isn’t catchy, it has no sense of being a song for the people but because of that it is shrouded in a mystery that is worth smiling over and allowing the various thoughts become entangled and fused together, for a casserole is a heart dish and a Yung Casserole even more so.

Ian D. Hall