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Well, that’s pretty much “mission accomplished” …

Mango Thomas’ bio lists their desired listener reaction as “What the fuck was that?!” Yup, Plunger have been listening to their 7-track EP Mango Thomas Goes De.EP for a week and we’re still not sure we can adequately express how mental it is…

The fairground barker spoken intro Intro boasts of “the wonder, the madness, the magnificence that can only be Mango Thomas!” and he’s not wrong… just listing the kaleidoscopic elements swirling in the maelstrom of styles, genres and moods makes your head spin:

Industrial-meets-jungle,

High whoops and didgeridoo low throb,

Lithe funk bass,

Old Skool wheely synth,

Sequencer’n’beats,

Canterbury Prog dreamy vocal harmonies,

Tribal techno,

Steve Hillage Green,

Banging laser-lit ravery,

Death metal,

Tomorrow Never Knows… 

and that’s just in the one track LWAD.

The machine-code stuttering 23rd Century funk of Found My Place collides lush symphonic pads with Nile Rodgers choppy rhythm guitar, Hawkwind interstellar keys and glockenspiel (obviously), while Dank Day’s Tin Machine/Belew-era Crimson hard-edged frenetic-rock-in-sevens deconstructs via elastic stoner lines and heavy grinding to a supple funk passage complete with fine jazzy piano and multi-vox falsettos (still in sevens though) before closing in a scream-laden death metal explosion.

By now it’s no surprise the closing track Fluffy Melancholy might not be exactly what it says on the tin: Grantchester Meadows-y bucolic finger-picking, mesmeric piano, relaxed beats and a Camelesque harmony guitar melody do bring a hypnotic airiness, heightened by the gradual seeping in of Eastern flavours from synth strings, sarod-like lines and finger cymbals’n’tabla, to match the ethereal floating vox… until the final two minutes of off-kilter death-synth (that’s a thing, right?) brutalism, layered with wild screams, a muezzin call and general weirdness…

If that’s all a bit too vanilla for you, as well as the increasingly manic strut (reminscent of Hammill’s Open Your Eyes, particularly the wild Jaxononsax horns) of Intro, there’s also a Stanshall-on-PCP crazed vox-and-cabaret-orchestra-manipulated-to-extremes interlude of I’m A Sheep, and the very Zappa-ish twisted-stalker-groupie-answerphone-message of Melonie.

Bonkers. Pretty much the only thing missing is the kitchen sink (although that might be where the didgeridoo low throb comes from) but the important thing is… it works. The mix of disparate styles, the matching of modern dance influences to prog sensibilities, the rhythmic complexity, the invention and wit, and the ease with which all those are combined calls to mind the US jamband scene, where the likes of Phish, Big Something or Disco Biscuits quirk-out and genre-hop with gleeful abandon.

Wonder; madness; magnificence… that’s Mango Thomas alright.

Mango Thomas Goes De.EP is released on Sunday (maximising the weirdness) 22nd November, available to pre-order here: https://mangothomas.bandcamp.com/album/mango-thomas-goes-de-ep

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