The album is a re-imagining of the soundtrack of the film Willy Wonka And the Chocolate Factory and taps into the melancholic skewed reality of Roald Dahl’s children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with a childlike glee and a gimlet cackling eye for musical dexterity and is like entering a world all of its own.
Their last album, The Green Naugahyde, is arguably their best and their latest adventure Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble is off the scale. Instead of resting on their laurels they just went weirder and even more interesting. They even managed to pull off hit singles and albums with idiosyncratic songs and goofy video clips that somehow fitted into MTV and the touring circuit. With the same kind of surreal twist and musical imagination of the godlike Captain Beefheart and the thirst of adventure of the underground they somehow stumbled into the mainstream when a whole generation of rock and metal fans, as well as lovers of the kooky and the weird, embraced them and their innate funky rockiness. Tue, 23 June O2 Academy Brixton, London …ĭriven by the bass player extrordanaire, Les Claypool, Primus have been making a brilliant series of idiosyncratic album for years which have pulled of the remarkable feet and gate crashing the mainstream epistle their artful wonkiness.
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