Tinyfish's previous two CD's have garnered excellent reviews all over, not least here, so obviously we're all chomping at the bit to hear their next full release. Meanwhile to keep up all hooked they've thrown us this collection of previous unreleased tracks gathered together under the Curious Things moniker.

June Jar starts us off in its pleasantly uncomplicated way, with jangly guitars (courtesy of Jim Sanders) over a simple drum beat from Simon Godfrey. It picks up the pace in the last third when it veers off into prog! If there was a typical Tinyfish song then this would be it, but as there isn't, it's not.

Ack Ack is a short interlude reminiscent of the old Baboon Enquiries bits that Jadis used to chuck in, but you do get to listen to what I imagine is a scantily clad American beauty being verbally abused by the Tinyfish scoundrels! No doubt led by Robert Ramsey. Wonderful.

She's All I Want is a three minute rumble over a Beck inspired beat, punctuated by Space Invader effects and general tomfoolery, which neatly runs into Driving All Night, a slow and mellow acoustic guitar led number. Why VHF? the boys ask next, and it's an interesting question. This track clocks in at a touch over 8 minutes, meaning by Prog Law, it has to be called an "epic" though it isn't, it's just a long song. It's a good song to boot, verging on Madchester, post-rave come-down in places.

The penultimate song is Wrecking Ball which flows like a "serious" Stephen Lynch song and tells the story of every relationship I've had. Except the ones that were different. The album is wrapped up with the spicy Cinnamon. Ok it's not spicy at all, but a Peter Gabriel / XTC style electro romp featuring Paul Worwood's bass pedals, that's also slightly reminiscent of some of the RDF's early work.

If you've already been converted to the Way Of The 'Fish then you need to get this. If you're new to the band then buy their bleeding album! Then buy this too...

• The June Jar
• Ack Ack
• She's All I Want
• Driving All Night
• Why VHF?
• Wrecking Ball
• Cinnamon

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