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This exciting new 13 Song CD is the group's first full-length release. For those in search of new sounds, SONGS FROM A RANDOM HOUSE will be a welcome discovery. Typically, the group matches offbeat subject matter with unusual instrumentation: ukuleles (soprano and baritone), mandolanjo, lap steel guitar, old plastic chord organs, violas and ethnic instruments are all employed to produce a collection of unique musical miniatures. The subject matter is by turns passionate and ironic, mysterious and witty; their songs present us with succinct slices of life that are almost always surreal. The name SONGS FROM A RANDOM HOUSE implies that events portrayed in the group's songs could happen in anyone's life, in a house chosen at random. Many of the songs explore the moment when the familiar becomes strange, and the strange becomes familiar. A good example can be found in 'Water,' in which the mundane activity of washing dishes becomes oddly unsettling: "Now you are awake/You've been sleeping for a long time, many hours/You run some water into the dishes in your sink/Water."