Album Review

The Voluntary Butler Scheme – Tabasco Sole

• 4th Jun 2009

Jangle funk flirts with nonsensical lyrics with the same emphasis on entertainment and reaction evoking, as Susan Boyle and Piers Morgan recently treated viewers to on Britain’s Got Talent.

However, in this case, the catchy pop-sters of The Voluntary Butler Scheme produce an infectious stomp, ‘Tabasco Sole’. It seems to be all natural feelings coming to the fore. Showing off their carefree abandon that any pop act worth their salt, flashes more unashamedly than Sacha Baron Cohen flashes his arse at an a awards show.

Just when Darwinians were starting to grow larger nails in order to make the head scratching process more effective, when considering how the evolutionary cycle of bouncy pop that spans the likes of The Jackson Five and Hanson, is going to continue? Along springs this suave Stourbridge troupe.

A slow building, funk splashed and horn pushed B-side ‘Split’, leans towards a low-key rhythmic Latino direction. The Voluntary Butler Scheme’s unashamed pop ways are exposed in all its glory, through a psychedelic glossed run through of The Human League classic, ‘Electric Dreams’.

Pop diversity is a term in this increasingly manufactured music culture of ours. However, this spirited and genuine outfit seem intent on bring the term back to your lips.