Following my recent activities in Hullavington and Goring (Hullavington post en route pending reciept of key photographic image), it's satisfying to get back to Oxford and find this sentence in a review of the album: "It’s like a provincial amateur dramatics production composed after the village hall tea urn was spiked with magic mushrooms".

I'm not sure if Nightshift mean this as a complement, but I'm certainly taking it as one. For those who can't be bothered to read the thing (click here and go to page 6), it turns out I'm a bit of a Jeff Lewis-a-like and annoyingly clever, but that Stuffed Animals is good. They don't like Shaking Sabres, but they do like The Irritating Maze.

In particular I draw your attention to their description of that track as "a mythical underground maze that defeats all but a geeky IT guy". This sentence made me really happy because the maze is never described in the song as being underground, which means that there's at least an extent to which the reviewer's own imaginings of what an irritating maze would be like have been stimulated. This is exactly what I wanted to achieve with that track, so I'm over the moon with the review.