3 out of 5

Label: Tiger Style

Produced by: Phil Ek

I’m tolerably amused by Spencer Moody.  I love John Atkins.  I have no special affinity for Joe Plummer, but he’s worked with some great groups.

So, hey, mash those opinions together into for a self-aware drunkenly-named covers band comprised o’ them three folks, and you get a head-bobbing, but ephemeral 5-song EP.

Moody, singing other people’s lyrics and tied to Atkins’ swooning guitar and Plummer’s plod-along beat, is reigned in from his normally gregarious, groany self, delivering cheeky additions to Jacques Brel’s very French ‘Girls and the Dogs,’ Lee Hazelwood’s ‘Ladybird,’ and Ben Folds’ ‘Boxing,’ while Atkins delivers some soft-sung, Atkins glory on Air’s ‘Black Douleur.’  The whole sense of fun propelling the thing along winds down (or perhaps begins to black out) with an – I suppose appropriately, but itls still a comparatively bummer of a track – noisome cover of Velvet Underground’s Jesus.

As almost every review has stated: this is really just a shits and giggles type of recording, and not a necessary addition to fans of any of the contributors works, as nothing here serves as an exemplary or wholly unique display of their skills, beyond the ability to get together for a fun jam session.