This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Once upon a time, there was a quirky band called Rheostatics.
They wrote clever, eccentric songs about hockey, The Group Of Seven and other Canadian things. One day, they decided to write a concept album based on a fairy tale by guitarist Dave Bidini. It was a story like Alice In Wonderland, about two kids who fall through a hole to an underground land where they meet a composer named Drumstein, learn to play the Wingophone, and create a Bee Sky Opus which sends them home and shows how music unites people. The band worked very hard for two years, writing sunny, whimsical orch-pop ditties that remind you of The Beatles, Beach Boys, XTC and Olivia Tremor Control. Then they played them all over the country. And they all lived happily ever after.
