It’s no joke
Aug 28, 2022
3 minutes
by RUSSELL BAILLIE
As it says on the tin, Songs Without Jokes is a non-comedy album by Bret McKenzie, a man whose songs with jokes have done quite well, whether sung by him and that other guy in Flight of the Conchords, or by Muppets.
It’s not that he’s run out of jokes or that he’s taken by the mood of the times – though he is ruminating on the state of things on songs such as , the lockdown-inspired (“I guess everyone wrote a Covid song”) and the melancholy .
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