Half Man Half Biscuit – All Asimov And No Fresh Air (2025)

Every three years or so, a new HMHB album comes along with Nigel Blackwell's wry observations on anything that impinges on his consciousness, to a bouncy tune in three minutes or thereabouts.

This most recent album (their 15th) jumped out of the racks of HMV's sale at me a couple of weeks ago.

And, as ever, this is a collection of listenable pop/rock songs, replete with pithy one liners, bizarre trains of thought, obscure cultural reference and some utter madness. There's only a couple of stand outs, the most obvious being Record Store Day, with perhaps a suggestion the event might be overhyped (Hip hip hooray, it's Record Store Day, you're going to need a second mortgage), and my personal favourite, a Spaghetti Western style tune about west country crime fighters McCalliog And His Hens.