:: Spod - Eternal Championz

Spod

Spod released his debut album, Taste The Radness, in September 2003. Not much over a year later, he has decided to inflict Eternal Championz on the unsuspecting public, presumably suspecting that his funny-for-about-five-minutes festival appearances of last summer (Meredith, Big Day Out, Homebake, Livid, and St. Kilda), had faded from memory. Thankfully, they had, which makes this collection of “unreleased live favouritez” an unwelcome reminder of the soundtrack to the long walk to the toilet block. To help him out in the studio, Spod has enlisted the help of Black Level Embassy (backing band) and Regurgitator‘s Quan Yeomans (vocal recording). Unfortunately for Spod (and us), his cool mates have done nought to lift this lumpen dog's dinner of already-dated electro-clash. Opening track 'Secks Party’ plagiarises the dumb party nonsense of Andrew WK, ‘Loooife’ is uninteresting techno-by-numbers, and the least irritating track here, ‘Parkin’ Aeroplanez‘, wishes with all its tiny heart that it could join in with the fun on Beck's Midnite Vultures, but doesn't even come close. Overall this is music that you'd have to be on drugs at a festival to tolerate, and even then it would probably seem like an opportune moment to seek out the toilets. File under 'Ephemera’, alongside Har Mar Superstar, Peaches, and Electric Six.