Faced with the problem of linking their various sounds together Greens Keepers adopted the typically playful, if not altogether original, idea of presenting their album as a radio show - voiced by their actor friend Ziggy Franklin.
It's not hard top spot the inspiration here and while the album doesn't feature anyone called Star Child or Catfish, the opening track, 'Upgrades', is as funky as anything ever laid down by Bootsy Collins. It also features as many characters as George Clinton's fantasy extra terrestrial station.
Clinton of course used to like assembling a football team on stage. And it turns out that, although the band is centred on a core of James Curd and Nick Maurer, Greens Keepers are in fact a pretty fluid bunch themselves.
Maurer, for example, isn't given any writing credits on 'Upgrades', while the next song, the Latin infused 'Fluid', doesn't feature Curd and 'Dark Sky' is written by neither, and is instead attributed to Mark Share.
There's also a fair few other contributors outside of the duo, including Cobin Rudish, Lance De Sardi, Land Shark, Joshua Michaels and Mike Dixon.
What we in fact have here therefore is a collection of productions usually made by one or other of the duo, often in partnership with someone else rather than by a duo working together, which perhaps explains the need for the radio theme to string the disparate parts together.
The core of the album is of course the light hearted house that first attracted attention with the tracks from their 'What's Gan Got To Do With Your Man' EP. This includes the gypsy guitar rush of 'Low and Sweet' and, more to the point, 'Dixie Gan'.
Their other club favourite, the roughly cut 'Should I Sing Like This?', is included, although other tracks, such as the samba infused 'DC Minor', are just as fun and more listenable off the dance floor.
You can't doubt the sense of humour, but by the time you get to the playful whistling on 'Big Noise' the joke is beginning to wear thin.
Which only goes to show that a series of 12 inches does not an album make.
