Folkwit Rec.
Pulco : Undersea Adventure (UK-WA,2005)***'
In combination with the cover, and considering the returning theme of water, beaches, and recipes for sardines, with all kinds of fantasies around the water shore, this sound like a want-to-be-happy pop album, sung with the time of the young boy he was in mind, who was not allowed to go in the water because it might make him sick. This is the big and happy revenge, a fantasy of doing so, to be involved with the fish, even when in sardine boxes, to fantasise on becoming Poseidon with a snorkel, or to listen to radio under water (“Snorkelling the hours” on track 10 and not 9 gives me this impression). With these songs it sounds as if he experienced years around the water (“Mr.Haines” sounds like a sad true story), while he’s still not there. Well, you can experience this very easily with him. The organ and electronica is always played playfully, clockwise giving pulses to the act of singing, and some rhythm box touches do the same, while recognisable acoustic and amplified poprock arrangements form very often but not always the basics of accompaniment.
100 numbered copies.
