Novelty records are always fun to listen along to and maybe crack a smile. They are enjoyable for a while then they get a little tedious and usually end up being played by those tragic wedding DJ's at the end of the night. For TDLM (The Duckworth Lewis Method) these novelty songs make up the content of their whole album based around the game of cricket.

It has become increasingly annoying to listen to the album in full duration. Each track isn't funny, at all. This may be due to the fact that I have no personal love for the game of cricket. In all fairness and reality though it is because it is pretty shit. Jokes and cracks about stumping wickets and hitting balls out of boundaries make a pathetic effort to amuse the listener.

Maybe its just one of those albums that some people don't "get" and I'm definitely one of them. Musically there is a lot to keep you enthralled. 'The Age Of Revolution' features some funky horn samplings that are just begging to be hammered along with a hard drum beat, but no it creeps into a placid attempt at a pop song. Throughout the whole album there are snippets of quality musical originality that keep you in for the whole show. At moments it sounds like a Christmas album, then the soundtrack to Scrubs, it's just all over the place (in a bad way).

If the lyrical material wasn't so irritating I think the lads from The Duckworth Lewis Method could have had something special on their hands. As it stands though they just had to go and ruin it with a silly "indie cricket concept album" that just begs to be ripped from the player.