HIDDEN cameras are not usually the stuff of joy, be it sneaky old speed-cams or the prying paparazzi.
However, the experimentalist Toronto collective of that name, led by art-school maverick Joel Gibb, make the feyest, gayest big music on their second studio set.
Gibb calls it "gay folk church music", an apt summation of the rush of baroque pop that takes its spiritual cue from Brian Wilson, Phil Spector and The Flaming Lips.
Gibb is not the first to coat the salty sting of his sexually candid lyrics in the sweetest of tunes, but he takes confessional intimacy into new territory on I Want Another Enema, the breeziest of adverts for colonic irrigation.
Flush with his belief in "the good of life", he declares Music Is My Boyfriend, showering it with gifts of tambourines and the promise to do its laundry! What a surreal pleasure to make Gibb's acquaintance.
Updated: 08:44 Thursday, July 22, 2004
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