Kenny Young and the Eggplants

Add Date: November 17

Artist: Kenny Young and the Eggplants

Album: The House at Creepy Lake

Label: Cheese Thing

Genre: Folk-rock, bizzaro

Comments: Planetary writes: "Claiming to be from Brooklyn (but possibly from some other galaxy altogether), Kenny Young and the Eggplants are a not-easily-described semi-acoustic trio who perfrom songs about giant squirrels, super-powered frogs, scary bits of cheese, inebriated birds, and broken washing machines, among other important rock and roll concerns."

The New York Times has says that they "give eloquent voice to the multifaceted neuroses of prolonged adolescence." I couldn't agree more. The House at Creepy Lake is their fifth record and it bears traces of a band who does what they do well. What they do, however, is pretty hard to grasp. I guess they sort of sing songs about strange things -- as evidenced by tracks like the title track and "Attack of the Maniac Librarian" -- but they do it with such wit and charm. These guys really take their silliness seriously, but sound just as at home taking ditching the creatures and eggplants, as on their take of the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale." Blitzen Trapper-by-way-of-"Monster Mash."

Try "Solitary Sentinel" or "Everything's Looking Up in Subterranea."