Fair to Midland, Arrows and Anchors

Not only is the opening track given the Snagglepussy title “Heavens to Murgatroyd,” it opens with heavenly church organ chords and an only slightly intelligible music-hall preacher-style interlocutor voice—before getting into a punk smash-up, a swirl of hard rock guitar riff, some declarative, evenly paced vocals, then some falsetto and harmonies. I got bored quickly, but what a kick-off!