Chef's Best: Hot Mess

Chef's Best: Hot Mess is the second full-length album by West Auckland experimental trio Crab Chunk and The Persistent Wafer. Released on the 21st of October 2016, the day before the release of Crustacean Nation, effectively a double album due to the two both being recorded on the same night at The Molyneux's on the 25th of September 2016.

Background & recording
The album is the first release in a series of two albums recorded on the same evening.undefined While the second album is on the surface more conceptual, this album continues themes and storylines created and built upon in the previous two releases. The Funkytown Radio Host is mentioned again in two separate songs, and the narrator from "Plaid Shirt, You're Dirt" makes his return, first announcing the death of the Funkytown Radio Host, and then wishing he could go to New Orleans.

This album is the first to feature artwork by Cameron Mason McCurdy instead of by Ruben Mita, a collage of stock images made using an out-of-service version Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Track listing
All music composed by Ruben Mita, Cameron Mason McCurdy and Leon Molyneux improvisationally on the 25th of September 2016; all lyrics written improvisationally by Mita, Mason McCurdy and Molyneux, aside from excerpts from the Bible, and references to both R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" and Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side".

Personnel

 * Leon Molyneux - vocals, guitar, keys, drums, djembe
 * Cameron Mason McCurdy - vocals, guitar, keys, drums, violin, djembe
 * Ruben Mita - guitar, keys, drums, violin, kalimba, bongos, djembe, bouzouki

Links

 * Bandcamp