My attention is so split right now I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be focusing on.
Ellington live at the Click Restaurant in Philadelphia from November 1948 is blaring in the room, but I'm supposed to also be thinking about this.
Holy shit. 2003. That seems so recent but it's already been 18 years.
The Mint Chicks were part of like the third wave of outstanding New Zealand bands on Flying Nun and I don't even know what to say about them.
They're noisy and spastic and all over the map, but everything always has a deeply embedded nugget of pop sensibility in it that no matter where it goes you can hum along somehow.
So yeah. They sound like you might expect from the sleeve art.
Seriously though you could certainly do worse than to spend a couple of hours going down the YouTube hole for the Mint Chicks and watching some live footage.
Here's a good place to start. See you in a couple of days....
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