Album Review – Bucket of Ordinary by Ditch Bunnies (2023) (Self released)
This Bucket of Ordinary album by the prolific Ditch Bunnies seems to move slightly further away from the predominance of the fuzz-laden sound that has blessed much of their back catalog to delve deeper into the various other musical nuances that have less frequently augmented their releases.
As such, their version of jangle-gaze proliferates the release, with tracks best represented by Leisure Town, Something Smaller, The Whole Day, and Jolly Chimp adopts the more subtle end of jangle-gaze’s isolated sensibilities and tumbles dominant percussion straight over the top of them to add a dynamism that swerves towards a finely coiffured sense of shambolic.
While Ghost in My Pocket and the superlative standout of Breezes still very much touch upon the Jeff Magnum/Neutral Milk Hotel sense of gloriously cool indie-pop, the very best of the release sees the Ditch Bunnies move within more washed-out prettiness as the blissed-out sunshine-pop scrabbles through the musical ether to eventually arrive as beautiful modern-day psyche in tracks such as The Scaredest Sundog and Leave The Light On.
Probably their best and most eclectic release yet.
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