Their first long-player suffered a freshness problem. Many of the songs had predated their first HBO series and while many got a second wind all spruced-up in the studio, it still didn't offer many surprises - other than how high it went in the Americancharts and how many Tuis the NZ music industry gave them for doing that.
The second album, is of course, the soundtrack to the second series (save for a few exclusions like the
And while the sophomore season struggled to repeat the initial spark with some groundhog-day episodes, its spin-off album still feels less of a reprise than the first. It also has a good smattering of tracks that happily defy the usual one-listen rule about comedy songs (the best of those is the bittersweet
Carol Brown
, on which Jemaine is haunted by a chorus of ghosts of girlfriends past).
Plenty of the other numbers will inspire endless enjoyable pop dissection discussion - which five 80s synth-pop hits constitute
