Album: What Happened To The Shrunken Tina Turner?
Artist: The Leg
Label: SL Records
Release date: -
On listening to What Happened To The Shrunken Tina Turner?, the second album from Edinburgh quartet The Leg, for the first time, my train of thought ran along the lines of, “what the fuck is this?” That response was quickly followed by “I don’t know, but I love it.” The album is titled after a (reportedly) real Tina Turner voodoo doll that usually accompanies their live shows, and is exactly as crazy as you might expect.
With their dark post-punk style, The Leg have a created a completely unique record, delivering nothing but the unexpected in their sound, lyrics and performance. Altogether, it feels like a record that came straight from the troubled minds of a daring group of musicians who are, at all times, running naked and screaming from the mainstream.
What really stands out is the lyrics, with gems like “cheese on bread / cheese on bread / cheese on bread” (from the rather obviously-named “Cheese On Bread”), while the lovely “Bees” superimposes “Some people stink of piss / some people stink of money / but you’re covered in honey” over the sound of deranged, screaming monkeys. “A Cunted Version of The Truth”, however, is a song of more conventional beauty; lyrics of lies and deceit dissolving into static over a gentle acoustic melody, while “Silver-Dog” features a bizarre recording of an American roadside preacher barking moral warnings to an unlistening audience.
If you, like myself, were waiting for a soundtrack to come along and lead you by the hand into insanity and back again, then I can heartily recommend The Leg. Do not be fooled by their incomprehension of what “rules” are; each track was crafted by an expert. It just so happens they were also a lunatic.
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Joni Langdale is an Edinburgh-based graphic design student. 
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