The Lovely Eggs - Panic Plants

The Lovely Eggs really are charming. Charming in the way they look, charming in the way they perform, and charming in the way a nursery full of children sounds when they’ve been entrusted with a box full of musical instruments. In the best possible way.

‘Panic Plants’ is the third single to be lifted from the DIY duo’s highly acclaimed second album ‘Cob Dominos’, and the follow up to previous single ‘Fuck It’ (which remained relatively off the radar, not because it was crap, but because in true Lovely Eggs style it was released on a bank holiday so nobody could buy it). But with the new record, there are no such obstacles.

An accurate and head-noddingly agreeable examination of our ever so slightly OCD tinted-lives, the tune is a catalogue of the daft little questions we ask ourselves on a daily basis. You know the type: ‘have I locked the front door?’, ‘have I turned the oven off?’ and other such speculations - the answer to which is unfailingly and unequivocally, yes. And yet we worry anyway. And this tune logs this, and presents it in a way which playfully reminds us all what silly little sausages we are.

The Lovely Eggs are a lot of fun. Whether it’s lamentations about olives falling off sandwiches; justifications about liking other animals just as much as birds; or wishes to the tune of wanting to fall off your bike, The Lovely Eggs are one of the most liberatingly honest bands around these days – they sing about whatever they want, however they want to do it. Their songs are delivered in a strong Lancashire accent, and more often than not in a very questionable key, and that’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But for those of us who find it endearingly quaint, it’s a fantastically refreshing brew indeed. And this song is more of that.

You know what they say anyway - you can’t make an omelette without breaking… yeah.