Music fans love monomaniacal obscurities whose records are impossible to source. As Plush and under his own name, Liam Hayes is a fried, lovelorn Burt Bacharach who has been playing cat and mouse with his audience for 20 years; his 2002 magnum opus, Fed, was for some time only available as a Japanese import. This latest, fifth, surprisingly perky, psychedelic doodle on Hayes’s own great American songbook arrives in an uncharacteristic rush after last autumn’s only semi-expected Korp Sole Roller album. Here, short sharp songs such as Get It Right could be about love or the perfectionist’s creative process; likewise Fokus, another deliriously pacey romp.
