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Bobby Conn - Macaroni

Review by Len Lukowski

Comforting, unsettling, danceable; one way or another Macaroni is a record to make you sweat.»

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musician, misfit, culture warrior and bullshitter: robert "bobby" conn. recorded with his new band the burglars, this album is the first since 2007's 'king for a day,' and his first new release on fire records. bobby has equally delighted and annoyed hipsters since first appearing on the chicago music scene in the mid '90s. blending aggressive showmanship with an omnivorous love of musical genres, from suicide to streisand or from the sweet to stravinsky, bobby has often irritated and provoked audiences, but never bored them. in between bouts of touring, bobby and his band, the burglars, headed to the studio to create this collection of new tunes, titled "macaroni". macaroni is a contrast between "this is what you want" (the packaged predictable blandness of a macaroni dinner) but this what you get (the violent mess of reality).
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