Remember, Kids: Listen to Flower the Skunk, But Don’t Pet

Jul ´14
20 10:24 pm
  • Posted by: Lisa Regula Meyer
  • Category: Indie Rock

The Human Petting Zoo and Flower the Skunk.

Bandcamp, 2014.

http://flowertheskunk.bandcamp.com/album/the-human-petting-zoo-split

This week I found out the name for a thing that I had no idea had a name- uke-punk.  As in punk ukulele.  If you’re a fan of Garfunkel and Oates, you’ve heard uke-punk and probably never even known what you were listening to (much the way I never knew what I was listening to when Garfunkel and Oates came on).   It’s that happy-go-lucky sound that makes you smile even when the topic is fear, and this album has it going on.  Well done, and a plain pleasure to listen to, this album combines the infectious strum of the ukulele with sometimes miserable discussion of fear, angst, and nothingness.

Go, listen, and have a little existential crisis for the start of the week.

Oh, and Flower the Skunk is from just across the way in Youngstown, Ohio, to boot, so you know it’s good.

Tracks: Human Petting Zoo – Nihilism Isn’t My Cup of Tea, I’m Afraid, Listen to Me, Beetles & Snakes; Flower the Skunk – Say So or Not, Always, Calling Me, Tales of Social Anxiety

 

About Lisa Regula Meyer

Lisa Regula Meyer

Lisa Regula Meyer (General Vagabond)- Lisa was born and raised in Lima, Ohio, now famous as the home of Glee. Reared on sixties and seventies music in the eighties, she still has an affinity for turntables and speakers taller than herself. After finishing two bachelor’s degrees at Ohio State Lima campus and being pronounced full of BS, she uprooted her husband and son to come to Kent and work on her Ph.D. in biology (just her- the husband is in history, and the son is in elementary). While dissertating and adjuncting, she began writing in a handful of venues, mainly for free music, pocket change, and to waste time she should be doing other things. Currently on the tenure track job hunt, she’s trying to stay busy and out of trouble, and is usually unsuccessful at this last endeavor. Lisa makes sure to warp the next generation through her own child and two surro-daughters, is a proud aspie, loves her husband and pet cat, and is great at doing what she tells others not to.

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