Heart of a Punk Soul of a Rasta

Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby
Double A Side
Teflon Wok and Bobblehead Doll

Listen up you fools and self deceivers!
Look upon the mysterious black object below with its grooves that have the power to harness sound.
Then bow your heads, mend your ways and prepare yourself for a joy unrefined
(very unrefined hopefully)

Here is the light, the one true way,
the holy trinity!
(Performer - Plastic - Punter)

People of the world behold, this is music!

This is how music should be disseminated, straight from the artist to the punter. And not by way of the horridly mundane download either by way of something much more, something physical, something tactile, something unique, something plastic!

I'm in love with the latest single by Eric Wreckless & Rigby Amy even before it's been plopped onto my turntable. But what about the music held in the grooves of this black circular object? Will my feelings of love be gone once my magic stick has penetrated the aural groove and unlocked its mystical delights? Nah!

With his 2004 "Bungalow Hi" album the Wreckless E created a wonderfully idiosyncratic aural scrapbook; a scrapbook choc full of memories, moments and other bits fluff plucked from the life of everyman Eric. Was it the musical version of his "A Dysfunctional Success" autobiography, or was "A Dysfunctional Success" a type scripted version of Bungalow Hi? (Shrug shoulders) Either way "Bungalow Hi" was a melancholic jumble of synthetic suits and ill lit streets, piss poor days and scratched vinyl, half day closing and Brentford Nylons, queues outside the flicks and odd shoes on the top of bus shelters; it was bittersweet with a capital F. Oh yes I nearly forgot it was also a bloody good album!

And then there was Amy and the fabulous "Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby" album in 2008 on which Eric and Amy seamlessly condensed the whole of sixties (music wise at least) onto a single LP. How'd they do dat? (Shrug shoulders PartII) And so to...................

"Teflon Wok" and "Bobblehead Doll" - the double A side. Teflon Wok is a "rolling" journey led by Eric whose voice sounds like a disembodied intercom floating above floor toms that wish they were timpani's. "On the other side of the rainbow" he sings "looking for a crock of shit hey I think we've found it" Then snatches of bass, fragments of piano and mucho amounts 60's jingle jangle are thrown it to the brew leaving you with a faint whiff of evo stick in your nostrils.

Lyrically "Bobblehead Doll" is melancholic "My Way" masterpiece of a track, "My Way" for the hard of perceiving obviously. Amy Rigby flips through the pages of the past trying to make some sense - some pages are stuck together with tears - some pages are quickly bypassed - but when the Bobblehead Doll finally asks "What was it all for?" she gets an unequivocal and deafening BLANK! Nice.

Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby's song writing and vocal interplay has a perfect truthful serendipitous bittersweet balance (whatever that means), like what Messers Lennon and McCartney had once upon a long time ago on the likes of "Getting Better". The saccharin sweetness of McCartney "I've got to admit it's getting better, A little better all the time" is swiftly bludgeoned by the "it can't get no worse" of Lennon.....Hey wait a minute how did I get onto the subject of bleedin' Beatles? And why does everyone keep banging on about the bloody sixties, this is supposed to be a Punk Fanzine! And so...."it's only January people but still you'll be hard pressed to find anything more horridly beautiful than "Teflon Wok" and "Bobblehead Doll" by Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby in what's left of 2010 - believe it!"