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Bombadil’s giddy new album, Tarpits and Canyonlands, is sunburst and lime-wedge, is summer folk and afternoon pop – but it’s also utterly weird. There are songs in English, in Spanish; a happy song about a sad birthday (which is wonderful); a song called “Koala Lumpur” – whose main lyrics are that same “Kuala Lumpur”. The album’s aesthetic is very pop (and in a small way it’s They Might Be Giants – wait! wait! i mean that actually in a good way), but oddly the thing it most reminds me of is a defunct webcomic called When I Am King. Sentimental, sandy, absurd, vulgar, narrative, shot through with smiles. Tarpits and Canyonlands opens with a song called “I Am” (which might as well be called “I Am … Building You A Pyramid”), offering chanted vocals, heave-hos, and a sort of glib piano-line. That song is later answered with another, “Pyramid” – a track with drumsnaps, pan-pipes, crash cymbals … and those same heave-hos. They make a bizarre pair, twins whose talents are considerable but undeclared. You wonder what these songs are for, what caves this band can unlock.