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One Last Job In Mexico

by I do You do Karate

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1.
The Kicking And Screaming Song 03:11
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2.
Racing The Streets 02:33
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3.
Olivia Newton-John In Xanadu 02:08
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4.
Styrofoamed 02:43
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5.
Love Comes To Town 01:34
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Don't Play With Stingrays, Baby! 03:29
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Shitsville 02:46
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Cornflake Express 03:06
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Boys On The Corner 02:07
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Wild Bunch Rocking 05:59
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Also available: 12 inch black vinyl fresh from Norway! Half A Cow has only twenty copies.

A:
The Kicking And Screaming Song
Racing The Streets
Olivia Newton-John In Xanadu
Styrofoamed
Love Comes To Town
Don't Play With Stingrays, Baby!

B:
Shitsville
Cornflake Express
Boys On The Corner
Wild Bunch Rocking

I do You do Karate are back with their second album One Last Job In Mexico. Their debut album How do You do Karate (release on Half A Cow in 2019) was well received across the board, featuring on many streaming playlists, and was named ‘indie-surprise of the year’ at Deichman music blog.

The second album shows that the five-piece band from Bergen, Norway is still all about making pop songs with catchy melodies and fuzzy guitars that will ‘make you smile’. The first single, “Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu” got a 7.5 out of 10 at stemmegaffel.no and is currently played on Norwegian radio and referred to as ‘classic indie-pop of the old sort’.

One Last Job In Mexico is 10 songs in 30 minutes played by five men who still believe in indie-rock.

“Usually when I listen to music I don`t care too much about the lyrics, which is pretty lame, as I care a lot about the lyrics that I write myself. A big fat oxymoron, with emphasis on ‘moron’. Nine of the ten songs are about me getting close to fifty, and not feeling very much a part of the world I`m living in right now. Pretty depressing stuff. But as long as you got great pop songs to tell it through, I think that`s OK.

The lyrics might sound kinda all over the place, especially to younger folks, as my main sources of inspiration and reference are the movies and TV shows I grew up watching: Blaxploitation flicks, The Wizard of Oz, The Dirty Dozen, The Wild Bunch, Serpico and Diff`rent Strokes are some of the movies and tv shows I was thinking of writing these lyrics. They make sense to me, and I think other people can have a fun time putting their own meaning into them. A few of the songs are love songs to my wife, but that might be hard to catch :)

In "The Wild Bunch" the outlaw gang see and feel the world changing around them, and know their time is up. Not unlike how I feel from time to time. They take " One last job in Mexico" where everything goes to hell.

"Cornflake Express" is like "Olivia Newton John in Xanadu" - another song about how I view my life and myself. Using small parts of the "The Dirty Dozen", a movie I have probably seen more than 30 times, as a way of saying it. The "Cornflake Express" is the 50-year long ‘train ride’ I call my life. I love how the upbeat melody and breezy sound of the song contrasts what I`m trying to say.

So to sum it up, the album is about getting old, loving my wife, and hating a lot of the stuff I see happening around me. How`s that for a chipper boot in the nuts?” – Ivar, singer from I do You do Karate

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released February 18, 2021

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Half A Cow is an independent record label from the East Coast of Australia. Run by musician Nic Dalton, Half A Cow has been releasing music since 1990. More releases can be found at viasatellitedownloads.bandcamp.com

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