Gumby’s Junk are an art-rock band out of Oakland, California. Just this past Friday, they put out their sophomore album called Business & Pleasure, and it’s currently up on streaming services as well as their Bandcamp.

From the get go, Gumby’s Junk let their freak flag fly on this album, opening the record on the weird sound experiment of “Something Was Not Done Correctly” with a garbled recording and what sounds like a xylophone being whacked at chaotically. Then “Instant Cult Classic” comes in with an awkward, angular, mathy beat under some classic pop elements, making for a fun-house mirror version of a typical pop tune. The vocals even sound like they could have easily been used in a more conventional song at times. Then “Sophomore Rodeo” has a sultry, jazzy feel to it but with another jagged, angular rhythm to create something really unique.

The brief “No Preface” is a bizarre rhythmic experiment that then leads into a track that’s literally called “Staying Alive by The Bee Gees” which is distinctly not “Staying Alive” by The Bee Gees. Rather it’s a mathy little indie-rock tune with twisted and rearranged pop elements.

The track “Best Deal Wheel and Tire” comes with a bizarre music video that utilizes stock footage and stop-motion animation along with footage of the band to create a disjointed art piece that perfectly matches the disjointed song. “Camus” also comes with a camcorder-like video of the band in a cornfield that keeps with the lo-fi fun the band created with the previous video.

“Tender Bender” keeps up the twisted pop stylings of the rest of the album, but starts to slip in some free jazz elements that blend perfectly with the band’s style. The minimalist lyrics of the penultimate track “No No Please Please Please” are an interesting experiment, as the whole song is just the words “no,” “please,” and “stop” in various different orders and voices. Finally, the mathy masterpiece “On God” is easily the most chaotic track on the entire album, finishing it off by demonstrating what the band is capable of in all their anarchistic glory. (from New Noise Magazine)