Deep Sea Vents
ZAPPO PRODUCTIONS/THIRTY TIGERS
8/10
IT’S unlikely anyone will hear anything much stranger this year than BrhyM’s “Platypus Wow”. “Got webbed feet, rubber bill, fat-ass tail, furry chill”, a multi-tracked Bruce Hornsby mumbles to a peculiar accompaniment of squawking, cawing woodwind, adding, “Dark purple-green coloured fur/I’ll stick that ass with my”. Soon he’s quasi-rapping, joined by mournful strings, unpredictable piano runs and doo-wop harmonies, before concluding, “”. The sentiment might sound Disneyesque, but Disney this is not.
