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CMU Approved
Approved: Connan Mockasin
By Aly Barchi | Published on Monday 30 September 2013
If New Zealand psych-head Connan Mockasin’s ‘Forever Dolphin Love’ album was bizarre, and it was, his follow-on ‘Caramel’ looks as if it’ll wax stranger still.
I’m basing this calculation on plain, inarguable facts, mainly that it carries on the ‘Dolphin Love’ narrative, that of a marine mammal’s doomed affair with a non-dolphin ‘boss-man’, features five variations on a track titled ‘It’s Your Body’, and has a lead single in ‘I’m The Man, That Will Find You’, which moves in very weird circles indeed.
Which isn’t to say I don’t like it, or Mockasin’s mad handling of its squidgy main catchphrase, and the way that pines away into a crazed refrain. I mean, I can love a thing and still be slightly scared of it, right?
