Business & Pleasure by Gumby’s Junk

For fans of Cardiacs, Artificial Go, surrealist art of all kinds, and meeting the world’s negativity with a defiant whimsy, Business & Pleasure by Gumby’s Junk brings their unique brand of operatic post punk into a firmly bizarre, psychedelic environment. These experimental sounds chart the ongoing rapid decline of civility in public life, spoofing our quickness to anger, insistence on envy, and embrace of vanity. Larger-than-life organs, impossibly agile guitars, and a bouncy rhythm section sketch a cartoonish background to a message delivered by vocals equal parts angelic and haunting. In these hands, interpersonal chaos gets heightened to an impossible caricature, even the most mundane instances of bad behavior taking on an air of vital spiritual importance. Seeing these petty transgressions under such an intense light forces us out of our own heads, willing to give one another more grace as we all take on the horrors of the end of the world together.