Far Too Loud - Banana Boy/We Want to Dance

Posted by Matt Oliver at 05/07/2010 00:00:00

Any similarity to Bananaman is purely coincidental. As cool as the Acacia Road resident’s theme tune was, Banana Boy is here to save the day from outbreaks of bad fruit by getting peppered with Apache breaks and synth swipes made for the most aggressive body-popping. It’s a fiery spitter of flammable material, though it does blaze in quite a logical ignition, the sample of The Muppet Show adding a touch of the bizarre to the electrified throttle control. Oli Cash manfully attempts to keep hold of his hover-bike whose engine spits and snarls, as per expected tuning from the Far Too Loud mechanic. The clap-ready breakdown is like leaping off a ledge to the point of no return as Cash does intergalactic stuntman before an assembled audience of impressionable synth lemmings, before...er...yeah, Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog pipe up to soften the landing.

Another to discolour drums with knuckle damage and synths shot as a batch of seemingly infinite ammo, We Want to Dance soars from the springboard and transforms a child’s honest assessment of how to lighten up a rainy day into a defiant klaxon of unity. Another juddering, sputtering off-roader caught in a graphical storm slash meteor shower, Cash’s shoot synths on sight policy remains rampant, save for a breakdown that goes for broke through the toolbox. Both are chunkier than a bundle of oversized Kit Kats, and crowds will queue to get slew by the surges of FTL playing dodgeball with planets in his hands.

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