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The Lard Brothers - Forest Action Team (AYRCD-008)
The Lard Brothers are a hip-hop-based side project made up of Bob Seng and Bob Tan. Amidst recording an album for their defunct main band, The Love Experiment, they decided to embark on a Mark Ronson-esque project by revamping and recording popular and their favourite Singaporean indie tunes.
Joined recently by another overweight comrade, Bob Tang, they invited their friends to guest on the album, lending their vocal talents and instrumental prowess. Each cover is a re-imagination of the original tune, embarking on a vastly different path from its original.
Pioneering Singapore rock act The Padres’ rebel anthem ‘Radio Station’ is turned into a Nick Cave-esque funeral dirge sung by folk troubadour Koff Koff. marchtwelve’s Dewi-marie Vincoy lends her pipes and You And Whose Army?’s Adam Shah provides his prodigious drumming talent on a ska-reggae rendition of Serenaide’s indie-pop classic ‘The Boy From Katong’. Toys In The Attic’s Joanne Sandhu turns up on a funk-soul version of TypeWriter’s ‘Enemy’. Ex-frontwoman of indie rockers Super Illegals, Biddy Low scats and croons her way through a lounge version of Plainsunset’s self-titled punk-rock classic.
Fellow labelmates B-Quartet’s Bani Haykal and Allura’s Inch Chua help out on 2 songs. Haykal sings on a R’n’B-meets-trip hop rendition of folk-rock legends Humpback Oak’s classic ‘Circling Square’ while Inch belts out on B-Quartet’s ‘Shoebox’, re-tooled as a loving tribute to Icelandic songbird, Björk. Phorous’ indie electronica-tinged ‘Shadowgraphs’ is done as a campfire sing-a-long tune, led by The Love Experiment’s Tan Yeeyong with the rest of the guest performers providing backing vocals.
DMC champion DJ Ko Flow shows off his formidable turntablist skill on the soul-inflicted ‘Wish You’ll Never Leave Time’ while critically acclaimed MC Garuda spits some introspective rhymes over the proceedings. The hip-hop track samples local alt-rock band marchtwelve’s ‘Dear You’.
Forest Action Team features ‘Democracy’, an original work thinly veiled as a non-political statement and ‘PoniesSoothePeople’, a Sony PlayStation Portable tribute track with their regular collaborator, Maximillian Ho.
The album is released online via the Aging Youth Records site and can be downloaded for free from National Day, Saturday 9 August 2008 onwards. Forest Action Team is produced and recorded at the Love Studios by The Lard Brothers.
The track listing is as follows:
1. Previously…
2. Enemy (featuring Joanne Sandhu)
3. Circling Square (featuring Bani Haykal)
4. The Boy From Katong (featuring Dewi-marie Vincoy, Adam Shah and Bryan Goh)
5. Democracy (featuring Roger Maximillian Christian Ho)
6. Shoebox (featuring Inch Chua)
7. Being Phat Isn’t A Krime
8. PoniesSoothePeople
9. Radio Station (featuring Koff Koff)
10. Plainsunset (featuring Biddy Low)
11. Scream
12. Wish You’ll Never Leave Time (featuring MC Garuda and DJ Ko Flow)
13. Shadowgraphs (featuring Tan Yeeyong)
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Reviews
The Lard Brothers
Back in 1996, the Chemical Brothers and Dust Brothers were stamping their signature big beat and hip hop sonics all over the airwaves. The incredible energy pulsated through the radio. A new sound had been born! It was fresh, exciting and incredibly sexy to boot. However, this has absolutely nothing to do with our story.
As these 2 monikers were snapped up, what were a couple of overweight musical soul mates to name themselves?
What else? The Lard Brothers, of course.
The Lard Brothers remix their friends music and write their own. They say, “We take an unusually long time to craft the songs and remixes. No, we are not that particular. We are just lazy. And fat. We discriminate against skinny people. There are many talented people who volunteered to join our ranks. No way. They were far too skinny.
“Yes, Paris Hilton, we are watching you.”
The Lard Brothers are:
Bob Seng – bass, keyboards, programming, vocals
Bob Tan – guitars, keyboards, programming, vocals
Bob Tang – bass, programming, vocals
Website: thelardbrothers.bandcamp.com
