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Balene Bonanza

by Bagful of Beez

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Cheersquad Records & Tapes is excited to announce ‘Balene Bonanza’, Link McLennan’s second single of his first album under the moniker Bagful of Beez, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Beatles’. Link is the founding member of seminal Australian acts The Meanies, Tomorrow People, The Bakelite Age and Sun God Replica, amongst others. His latest project Bagful of Beez is a melting pot of all those acts, and the results are astounding.

‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Beatles’ is scheduled for release this October on limited edition, marbled green 12” vinyl, black vinyl and digitally.

Bagful of Beez music is a brilliant and eclectic mix of classic pop styles, and the result is the sort of everything-including-the-kitchen-sink approach that studio-enamored pop savants have been known to take ever since Todd Rundgren recorded “A Wizard, A True Star”. Link recorded the album completely by himself, playing all instruments. He has played out solo with a drum machine as Bagful of Beez a couple of times in recent months, but has just enlisted EVEN drummer Matt Cotter to ensure a stronger live presence. EVEN, of course, is also the second home of Link’s Meanies bandmate Wally Kempton.

Link McLennan: “’Balene Bonanza’ is less about nihilism and more about acceptance of the realities of human nature. It’s about moving on in the face of insanity.”

“I have a strange feeling that the creation of my debut Bagful of Beez album was like feeding all the music of my past bands to an Asian palm civet (a weird cat/raccoon type creature), but instead of it shitting out an expensive coffee, it defecated a bunch of songs that are unique, exciting and cohesive. I've never felt so confident about a collection of my songs being so fully realised, and it leaves me with a powerful desire to keep creating and evolving within the wide parameters of Bagful of Beez. With the recent addition of Matthew Cotter (Even) on drums, it all feels perfectly satisfying.” - Link McLennan

lyrics

What's there left to do but let the anchor go
Picked up and blown away by winds that never know
Maybe I'll see you all when I've blown round the world
I'll just have to see where I will be hurled

Crowns are smashed and broken
Thrones are firewood
Hieroglyphic horrors
I never understood
Pipe dreams in the sewer
Floating out to sea
Balene Bonanza

So I realized with a heavy heart
To participate first I had to start
But I am inside a turducken cell
No cake and no file and never any mail

There's no going back to El Dorado

Crowns are smashed and broken
Thrones are firewood
Hieroglyphic horrors
I never understood
Pipe dreams in the sewer
Floating out to sea
Scoff it down

Crowns are smashed and broken
Thrones are firewood
Hieroglyphic horrors
I never understood
Pipe dreams in the sewer
Floating out to sea
Balene Bonanza

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released September 16, 2021
Lindsay McLennan

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Cheersquad Records & Tapes Melbourne, Australia

Wally “Meanie” Kempton took the plunge in 2018 and launched his record label Cheersquad Records & Tapes. Since then he has released new material from acts such as The Meanies, The Hard-Ons, Chris Wilson, Phil Jamieson, Seasick Steve, Wanita, Minibikes, The Rinehearts, Immigrant Union and T. Wilds, along with limited edition vinyl of older material from Snout, Even and The Glory Box and more. ... more

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