Whereas ‘Big Dick Around Town’, the previous release from Reverend Barry Frink And The Bad Buzz, was “Written and recorded hastily for the fun-times” this release was “Written and recorded over two days in county Roscommon.” It’s unclear whether this sojourn makes ‘The Singlz’ an even speedier concoction or if it amounts to a Sgt. Pepper-esque studio embedding for the band but the former might be closer to the mark.

The cover would certainly suggest so, with a hand drawn cartoon featuring a naked stickwoman being doused in petrol by two grinning stickmen. It certainly adds a new perspective to the “Hold this pump while I fill you up” line in the opening track. Where The Jam borrowed the riff from The Beatles’ Taxman for their own Start!, Reverend Barry Frink And The Bad Buzz see fit to re-use it on I Won’t Make You Pay (Not In That Way) before the song then takes on a New Wave slant as the tongue-in-cheek, sleaze merchant vocals move through a few jokey inflections.

Testicular Chancer details the lifestyle and characteristics of a nefarious character set to a lo-fi indie song, while on A Ugly Girl – slower, with another affected vocal – it may be our narrator who is the cad. Or the brutally honest lothario, “I’ve got a thirst for a ugly girl/I’ve got no time for a pretty girl

H’up Ta Funk, as the title would suggest, is a funk workout in the mould of Hillel Slovak-era Chilli Peppers, blending that guitar-driven funk with a more punk edged chorus. A heavy, fuzz guitar line crawls through Housevan, built around the repetition of the title line. This hybrid domicile/vehicle that is both/neither revs through the gears at the end – a snare roll winds it up to the finale before only the vocals are left, speeding and slowing, like a cassette tape getting chewed.

Despite a couple of missteps early in the selection, the good humour and fuck-it attitude lifts ‘The Singlz’  above the average, just. None of this takes itself too seriously; vocal sounds are played around with and a certain MC Yolo is on hand to help out the Reverend, although which is which we don’t know. This was rushed out over two days in the county with the longest life expectancy in Ireland. Makes you wonder what else they’re planning.