The Corner Laughers

"If you drop breadcrumbs while you're off adventuring you'll lose your way in darkness, so we've heard. We learn about their failures across the centuries but at least they got to feed some hungry birds." So declare the opening lines of "Matilda Effect," the new record by California's The Corner Laughers. The wry spirit of adventure contained within those words flows throughout the latest release from the band called "a nigh-on-perfect fusion of bubblegum-sweet tunefulness and clever, subtly barbed lyrics" (Icon Magazine.)