Clearly though, you are not here to read about my friend Kez – you want to hear my opinion on Marian Call and her scintillating new album. Well, from avocados to decrees of avian freedom, damn this is one album that will not put you to sleep (and even if it would – coffee will be served by track 14. So even if you just flew the coop, wish the moon a good morning or perhaps secretly wish you were a real Alaskan girl, this album will take you all the way across highway five by mixing cute, funny and beautiful into one nice, two-disc package. And all that without the need to intentionally misspell common words like “biznizz”!

So take that car out of the garage, and as any captain of the USS Enterprise would command: break the speed of light and set a course for Krypton (or a more convenient concert location nearby). Just don’t go to any place that has fallen into disrepute (for your own safety, of course). After all, you wouldn’t want a bee to “bzzzzzrrrrrtttttt” its way into (or even near) your ear canal while listening to this sonic rainbow of concentrated joy, would you? No, you would not because that might well change your ear into some monstrous outcropping ruined and unsuitable as an earhole. We’re venturing near that treacherous trapdoor that is “off-topic” though, hitting that would cause my comment to stagnate and let’s be honest, I’m here first and foremost to praise Marian’s new CD. In the unlikely event that anyone reading this is some kind of music snob who feels that anything that may require them to use their USB ports to listen to this terriffic music on the go, Something Fierce is also released on an actual double CD and not just available via digital download. So put down that axe and just buy these discs.

Balance prevails over randomness, as the PM of a small European kingdom will surely tell you. That, and footbaal over here is actually played with your feet, which you may find handy to know. So don’t hover with resentment, but rather, grab a keyboard and go absolutely nuts with youthful abandon! Also, you must never forget to be wary of sabotage, whether or not you’re absolutely positive that your Good old Girl is resilient, blind optimism is usually the cause of more problems than pessimism will ever bring to the table. Unless, of course, you’re in league with some eldritch fish god, in which case you may be interested to know that they like Skittles.

Back to the music. one of my favorite songs of Marian’s has to be the upbeat Nerd Anthem, I’ve always been a big geek, and that being the case, this song just resonates with me. Another potential favorite of mine is that earnestly heartfelt track about the highway running past the entire eastern coastline of the United States, Highway Five. But Marian’s brainpan is full of fun ideas to put into song. Amid songs about moving to Alaska, Temporal Dominoes (something that sounds like it should have been in an Acme catalogue). Marian demonstrates superb knowledge of comic fiddling, especially when it comes to geeky subjects. Call expresses herself musically like few others can.

Call’s manteaU USed, I propose MuumUU-Only shows, to battle comPLACence, to be the POrteND of helPMateS Ministrating the EUphonic kinGDom. Experiencing SeTBacks in oDYssey, beset by HOaxERs and fronTMen, Beleaguered and bLUrry-eyed Marian ACtuates the APparatUs of noNPlussed twitterers, dePUtizing them in the nAMe of the quest. BardiC Musicians, celeB Kin, artistiC Friends, and the finESt oF Man-kind and woman-doM Donated NObly so that the reveLRy would endure!