, one ofthose shows attempting to make celebrity chefs out of a couple of Wellington restaurateurs not quite up to the job description.
Oh well. That song is about the only misstep on this, the second album under the Bads moniker by partners Dianne Swann and Bret Adams.
The Bads' record from 2005 first caught them grappling with stylistic issues, trying to reconcile their pop and rock pasts with a growing enthusiasm for alt-country. This one is a far more relaxed, cohesive affair which lets the songs breathe with rustic charm and fine tunes. And that's right from the title track which opens this, while, thankfully, evoking something more than whitebait fritters.
Elsewhere, with Adams briefly taking the lead vocal they head boldly into Wilco territory on
Drop in the Ocean
and deliver deft duets on both the rollicking country rock