Kid Koala

A wildly innovative album that's as sophisticated as it's fun (the actual CD comes with a comic book). Working with a broad palette of sound, Koala constructs short, delightful tracks using samples, scratching and even sneezes. If aliens were ever to get their mitts on this, they'd wonder just what we humans were up to.

More postmodern comedy from the boulevard of broken beats. Bits include ska with a game leg, scratches with postnasal drip, translations from the marsupial, hi-fi jokes salvaged from hi-fi records, a robot doing the cha-cha-cha, and a drunk trumpet stumbling through the saddest and bravest "Basin Street Blues" ever to make you laugh out loud. (Grade - B+)