Entangled in the sticky, murky outer reaches of the World Wide Web, Formidable Vegetable brings you their latest musical CyberVirtualMegaInteractive5000SonicUniverseWorld complete with all kinds of actual amazing things like: Birds! Friends! Breathable air! Tasty tastes! Smelly smells! …And pretty much anything else you can dream of!
They call it:
IRL: ‘IN REAL LIFE‘
In a world dominated by virtual technology, ‘In Real Life’ takes us from absent-mindedly bumping into lamp posts and falling down manholes whilst looking at our phones to dreaming up a new kind of World, where just about anything you can imagine is possible!
Complete with their trademark funky/squishy Radish Beets, string & horn orchestras and A-lister cameos (such as Harry Angus of The Cat Empire), Formidable Vegetable’s sixth studio release is a cheerful salute towards living life on this planet to its fullest out in the beautiful Real World instead of watching it go by on a screen.
With songs about staying positive against more odds than ends, learning to be cool with your own neuro-diversity, the perils of greed and a down-to-earth, New-Orleans-style birthday anthem, In Real Life is the band’s most joyous and versatile record yet. Wrap your earholes around these songs:
Short Attention Span
Imagine the coolest interactive, multiplayer, team collaboration role-play game ever invented. Where you are actually you and your friends are actually them and there’s actual real stuff you can actually do! Sounds amazing right? Short Attention Span is a kooky swipe/snap/scroll taking you from pixelated low-res virtual reality into a world of crisp, high-definition, Actual Reality, where you can stay as long as you like!
Bad Timing
Ever had one of those days where nothing seems to go to plan? Maybe it’s lack of sleep? Maybe it’s your brain? Maybe it’s just bad timing? Fat beats from Melbourne super-producer, Spoonbill drive this Bootsy Collins-vibe tune all about singer, Charlie Mgee’s neuro-diverse way of doing things (which often leads to getting right timing wrong!)
Tell ‘Em You’re Dreaming
What if you could make anything you dreamed about happen in real life? Have you ever tried? It might be more possible than you think! If anybody asks what you’re doing while you’re gazing off into the distance or doodling wildly on the margins of your homework, just tell ’em you’re dreamin’! Some old-school swing all about keeping a positive attitude and making dreams happen.
Fluff
You know that ‘L’ word that you sometimes just can’t say out loud without wanting to run behind the fridge and hide? Well, Formidable Vegetable has saved the day with a made-up alternative that you can say as much as you like: “Fluff“! This is an anthem for Fluff, the things you can do with Fluff and all of the places where Fluff is most needed (hint: it’s everywhere!) Featuring a soaring trumpet solo from of one of Australia’s finest musicians, Harry James Angus of The Cat Empire.
Earthday Birthday
We thought it was time for a new birthday song that celebrated not just the person who’s birthday it is, but also the whole living world that helped them grow up to be an amazing, miraculous part of it. So that’s what they did. A New Orleans-style street party jam dedicated to anyone who’s just grown another flower in their bouquet!
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An epic Broadway-style showtune about the perils of greed. They say ‘Less is More’, but not in the opinion of the guy behind this song. Everything gets a little ridiculous toward the end when he realises that maybe he’s got a little more ‘More’ than he bargained for. Dedicated to Jeff, Elon, Bill and anyone else who may have had more than their fair share of the pie.
‘In Real Life’ is out now on all music platforms (none of which, ironically, exist in real life!)