Buffet Lunch – Perfect Hit!

Perfect Hit! is a chocolate box, each track offering new, delicious morsels from the ridiculous to the sincere. The sweet, childlike lilt of Blue Chairs, Blue Floors, Blue Folders recalls Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest; a perfect accompaniment to Perry O’Bray’s tender appraisal of awaiting a newborn, a ‘hurricane’. Another Face Entirely recalls Parquet Courts’ driving dancey rock, whilst the punchy little drum beat and squirrelly synth of Whitsun Sound brings to mind The Fall, and The Slowing of the Shoes shares Pavement’s slacker energy. Curious folk will find more influences in a playlist created by O'Bray. 

Perfect Hit! builds on the band’s rich imagination and craftsmanship, beautifully exhibited on last year’s For Display Purposes Only and 2021’s The Power of Rocks, but there's a depth and fresh perspective provided by newcomers Matt, George and Jack. Three singles are accompanied by increasingly hilarious videos, from creating a social experiment with a chair, to the deranged communion in the video for Whitsun Sound, by Joshua Roland. The cover and title track video were shot in Portobello Town Hall. The setting complements the record’s Vaudevillian moments; honking kazoo, the music’s tipsy sway, O’Bray’s delightfully silly lyrics. Perfect Hit! is exactly that; a record that delights and surprises with each listen. 

Listen to: Blue Chairs, Blue Floors, Blue Folders, Whitsun Sound, The Slowing of the Shoes