Song(s) of the Day # 3,733 Mammoth Penguins

 

    'Between 200 and 2,000 species go extinct each year. I'm not that special, but I'm still here.'

A humble but valliant assertion of self. Cambridgeshire's Mammoth Penguin who've been round the block plenty of times in their ten years on the circuit. New album Here, sets out its stall in very minimal, no nonsense fashion. They're a three piece, guitar, bass and drums project, the kind you'd enjoy greatly if they were playing in an upstairs of your local pub on a Friday evening.

Emma Kupa, who takes the Penguin mic has a strictly no nonsense approach. Here is twelve songs and forty minutes long and it goes by before you know it. Stories of being in a giigging band, setting up and packing up your gear, merch stalls, flters and fanzines. Tales of a lifestyle grounded in music and dreaming escape from 9 to 5 drudgery.. 

There's a sense of natural insecurity here, but you'll be OK because you're will like minded mates and you'll be fine. Much pondering the nature of the nature of existence and our place in the scheme of things. This never stops let's face it, it's the fundmental principle of existence. Sturdy, resilient and likeable stuff. I thought 'The Housemartins'. Sometimes it pays to keep things simple.