Review of A Very Fine Adventure from The Montreal Mirror by Rupert Bottenberg

Following a masterful mash-up of old-tyme kiddie records and a lively, wide-ranging remix project, Massachusetts maestro Mike Langlie gets back to basics. Funny to say, given that Langlie's work always dives fearlessly into the cute, weird, silly, sugar-sticky realm of childhood fun, daring haters to heap on the bah-humbugs (his wise, intricate and crazily catchy compositions, however, are hardly child's play). Ostensibly a dozen tunes for a trekking trio of bunnies in a balloon, this cleverly packaged album of "toytronica" taps into a wider range of moods and moments than one might guess.