Ah, brave reader, so you’ve returned to our little haunted nook? Good. Good. Come in, come in, sit anywhere…No! No, not there, that is not quite as it seems…hmm? Oh, just humour us, we can’t really explain, ha ha ha! That’s much safer, err, better. Yes. So, what delights do we have for you today from the Spooky recesses of the Big Stir Records Vault? This track from “Chilling, Thrilling Hooks And Haunted Harmonies” is by the Anglophile The Corner Laughers – who are Karla Kane (vocals, ukulele), Khoi Huynh (bass, vocals), KC Bowman (guitar, vocals) and Charlie Crabtree (drums). It’s a light and breezy number that, says the band, “is an incantation and invitation for anyone who feels out of sync with the ‘normal’ world, whether it be due to aging in a botox and TikTok society, a complete disinclination to join the capitalist rat race, or some other sense of feeling on the fringes. And of course, as always, for the corvids!” It’s not the first time these cleverest but most misunderstood of birds – crows, ravens, rooks, magpies and jackdaws, every last one of them namedropped in the song – have taken centre stage in Karla Kane’s lyrics, and here they take flight as a proud symbol of nonconformity.
Should you be looking for a suitably Corvid companion piece to the song, why not try out Roger Corman’s “The Raven“, a very (very!) loose adaptation of the poem by Edgar Allen Poe. We’ll see you tomorrow for a further journey into Americana-Fright.
