Been listening to three MP3's from the "mouth band" Throat Culture, from their Up With Angst album. Very much in the Bobs tradition: nice harmonies, odd lyrics, impressive arrangements. Toast is about, well, toast: making it, watching it, eating it. "I won't come up 'till my tan is showing." In Backslide, the lead singer has phrases that sound a lot like some Steely Dan cuts, but the rest of it is more like an 80's soul song. The bass scat lines at the end are just amazing, especially the vibrato and 'bent' notes. I can picture a jazz player, hunkered over an upright bass, wailing away at the strings! And finally, Damaged Goods, in the mold of mainstream soul-rap (N'Sync, perhaps) with ties to the 70's soul scene, is a melancholic song about breaking up. "You can keep the cats. And I will take the dog and the microwave." An album worth acquiring, I think.