I am seriously bowled over.
This album has completely restored my faith in a band that, admittedly, has been shoved to a real back burner since the release of Punky Heart.
As a single, I really wasn’t impressed. I felt that it was far too much in the way of its immediate predecessors and just was not the fresh, unique sound I have come to associate with LM.C, seemingly to fall from the same monotonous production line of SuG releases.
But when a friend of mine whom I recently converted to earlier and glorious LM.C downloaded Wonder Wonderholic and placed it on a pedestal so high it would have towered over Olympus, I decided I owed my old favourites at least the decency of giving their newest album an ear.

I am not the sort of person to admit when I am wrong. Oh no, the moment I realise I am wrong, I more likely to argue the toss out of it twice as hard in order to regain face. But I hold my hands high to have ever doubted the boys with this one. Wonderful Wonderholic has captured the true eccentric sound of LM.C and throws it in your face with all the force of a barn in a tornado. Each track, despite being so fantastically unique, flow seamlessly into one and other giving the album a very united feel. Whilst being an all together heavier album than more recent creations, LM.C seem to gather the best factors from a variety of musical influences, from the slightly reggae undertones of Optimisland, the classic guitar of meteorion that seem to whisk the listener back to times of hair metal, to the all out punchy rock of Ghost Heart and bind them with an electronic witchcraft into an amalgamation of such thrilling magnitude that were I not so strictly housetrained, I would have made a little puddle of excitment upon first hearing the album. Though this album has far fewer intermittent instrumentals than its predecessor GIMMICAL IMPACT, Wonderful Wonderholic still managed to deliver the same effect, with the short spurts of sheer spontaneous, melodical acousti-gasms only serving to aid the upbeat feel to the album that will really get those hips wriggling.

‘But Metzli’, I hear you cry, ‘doesn’t this album contain Punky Heart? The very single that caused you to so shamelessly cast LM.C aside in the first place?’
My answer?
‘Why yes dear reader, yes is does. But mind your own bloody business and stop picking flaws in my enthusiasm!’
Truth of the matter is, I still don’t like Punky Heart. But the rest of the album is so stupendous that it manages to dance around in front of my face and slip the wool over my eyes with such ease it’s almost shameful, that I really didn’t mind so much when it came on.
Of course, if it comes on whilst on shuffle one day, I will not bat either of my eyelids before callously pressing the ‘skip’ button. But as a whole, I feel it works with album.

In short:
Wonderful Wonderholic = Well Good. Therefore: Listen to it.

Metzli