Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin

Is it just me or might Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin actually be shifting her radar from what was once, surreally out-there, to a brand more pop aware and playful? Let’s not distract from the fact that ‘bright light city’ plays perfectly to those oddball weird ear trademarks we’ve come to love and adore, that Residents-esque warping now re-filleted and fried to sound like something cooked up on a date between Quimper and Midwich Youth Club after an evening in the company of the Moon Wiring Club. Yet still, amid the appealing melodic and the off centred catchy of changing time signatures, the kookily crooked electronica and the mild waft of carnival macabre, I’m still a tad flummoxed by the eerie feeling, that Laurie Anderson is never far away from her listening preferences.