Hot Mulligan
Hot Mulligan's song titles remain a fairly unreliable guide to what is inside. Monica Lewinskibidi is about grief. That probably tells you something useful about The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still: the jokes are still around, but the feelings underneath them are not small ones.
Indie / Punk rock / Rock
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