24-pages Booklet.All the songs on the album were recorded at High Sea Studios by Jacques Du Plessis and Adrian Erasmus, described by the band as the 6th and 7th members of SHORTSTRAW. Musically, the collecton as an album expresses the diferent types of music all the members are into, not being dictated by any sound or genre each month, the band wrote about whatever they were feeling at the tme and what they thought sounded good. Lyrically there was defnitely a theme, and that theme was basically 2016-2017! Each month, as we wrote the songs, I'd just be singing about what I was going through at the tme. A struggling relatonship, a break up and the subsequent reforming of said relatonship, along with the death of my frst dog. It's actually a prety personal album.' says Alastair Thomas. Commitng to releasing a new song and music video every month is all about stcking to tmelines otherwise they would have lost all momentum, says SHORTSTRAW. While writng the songs each month, some came more easily than others. A few of them came from old ideas reimagined: Ignorance is Bliss was born out of idea of Alastair that is almost 10 years old, whereas Our Simple Minds and The Less We're Together came about in less than an hour.' Compared to their previous albums, THOSE MEDDLING KIDS feel more free and bold, the songs are all vastly diferent and diverse and in some cases, they change tempos and even in the case of Rich Richards, are three diferent songs in one. The band cared less about what people may have expected, and were more content to do what they think is great and excitng. They tried something new on almost every song and played with tme signatures, genres, producton elements and collaboratons. The result: THOSE MEDDLING KIDS, a music collectve
