Max Tundra - Will Get Fooled Again

Max Tundra has had a short two-album career so far, but you’d imagine that the carnage of old Amiga 500s ripped apart to be here is sizeable. More 16-Bit deathbeds seem inevitable with forthcoming album Parallax Error Beheads You, at least if Will Get Fooled Again is indicative of it. A disarmingly simple down-stroked guitar riff introduces a sweetly sung melody that name-checks E-Bay, Google and MySpace (finger on the pulse there Max) before hitting home the extraordinary line “she baked a pie of very shy laboratory mice”. It’s all fed sideways into a knackered child’s Casio keyboard, spewing out the other end like aural Playdoh. Good clean fun. [Darren Carle]