Album — Flight of the Conchords by Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords are “New Zealand’s fourth most popular digi-folk paradists,” a comedic music duo probably best known for their HBO television series of the same name. For a comedy album, the songs are well-composed with melodies and rhythms that work entirely on their own. This instrumental quality only adds to the hilarity of what the songs are actually about. It’s nice to have a musical comedy act capable of playing virtually any style of music (moving from hip-hop to R&B to Bowie to pop). The songs on the album are the same that have been featured on the show and seen in their live shows. Even if you’ve seen them before, the witty, irreverent, satirical and downright silly lyrics still hit home with laugh out loud moments. Check for yourself.

Quarters for the songs: Business Time, A Kiss is Not a Contract, Hiphopopotamus, Mutha’uckas, The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room), Robots.

Worth listening, if you like: Stephen Lynch, Tenacious D, David Cross, Dave Attell, Team America, They Might Be Giants, Arj Barker, Demetri Martin.