Mint Biscuit: Blue Green Yellow

Welsh musician Richard Thomas has rounded up 20 instrumentals from the back catalogue of his Mint Biscuit project and carefully sequenzed them for the new compilation album, Blue Green Yellow. If anything it shows his versatility as a player and it also offers the listener a glimpse at his guitar collection.

The blues is never far away, but there are also forays into rock (Mash All), pastoral psych pop (Banging Our Heads On The Brick Wall Of Life) and surf (no bonus points for guessing who is the inspiration for Wrink Lay). By letting his fingers do the talking, he often stumbles on a bit that just begs to be explored further or repeated, to which he dutifully complies most of the time.

With no A&R type breathing down his neck, he is at liberty to play and release anything he wants to. This instrumental "best of" would never have flown if he were signed to a major. Thomas can rearrange his music as he sees fit and because of that this collection of familiar tracks sounds fresh.

Blue Green Yellow is a self-released album. Buy it from his website. A wealth of his output is available on CD via elasticstage.com.

Tracks:

1. Dawn Chorus Steel City
2. Do You Like Metal?
3. Killer Rabbit
4. Mash All
5. VapoRub Blues
6. Wrink Lay
7. Rampant Robins
8. Madras Hot
9. Crafting An Oppo
10. Another Angel
11. Banging Our Heads On The Brick Wall Of Life
12. Hornets' Nest
13. Keeps On Raining
14. A Short Excursion
15. Joust, For The Sake Of It!
16. Through The Mizzle
17. Muscovado Magic
18. Magic Theatre
19. Minkstinker
20. Fletcher Street Spirit

» mintbiscuitsounds.com