Drug Rug Paint the Fence Invisible

Drug Rug's latest album Paint The Fence Invisibleis essentially a complete about face from their self-titled album. While that album was twangy, bluesy, countrified indie, apparently the band found their inner pop star on Paint The Fence Invisible and headed the opposite direction. That being said, what they've done in turn is written an album that still has their wonderful childlike sense of wonder but now it's coated with sugar and sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. The result of all this cavity causing goodness, is that Paint The Fence Invisible blows away their debut ten times over.

While there are bits and bobs left over from their debut album scattered throughout, most of Paint The Fence Invisible finds itself in love with the very idea of making gleeful pop music. Drug Rug almost seem to be skipping through each of the songs here as they're songs effervescence is contagious and almost toohappy. While they might occasionally twang here and there, the album seems to be far bouncier than anything they've ever recorded and one can't help but create an image in your head of the Beatles "Ob-la-di Ob-li-da" being repeated over and over with girl boy vocals. That's a not a bad thing because Paint The Fence Invisible is just that good; it's a jaunty pop romp through the backwoods and it's overjoyed to be back there with or without you.

From the strummy, jangly, perky, "Never Tell," to the shouty nursery rhyme pop of, "Hannah Please," Paint The Fence Invisible is an awesome record. It's such a great thing that they left so much of their countrified influences back at their house and wrote an album you want to jump around and dance to. In a time when so much of the world is down in the dumps, Drug Rug have created the cure for the world's ills. Paint The Fence Invisibleis like a spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down in the most delightful way!