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Having shed their troublesome flugelhorn section and abandoned the Peruvian laundromats tour, Short & Curly thought it timely to pursue their ambition to record a boxed set of Inuit hip-hop covers. However, government funding for that project was less than forthcoming, so the Western Australian duo has instead made an album of nine original songs, plus one obscure cover, in the styles of country, blues, folk and reggae. A smidgen of doo-wop has been added, gratuitously, for variety. Rumours that the newly released (Feb 2018) album, <em>Fugitive Souls</em>, was produced on a shoestring are unfounded. Several standard sets of guitar strings were used. Also harmonicas in the keys of A, C, D, E, F and G, none of which was harmed in the process. Or not much. The duo’s collaborators weren’t so fortunate. Co-producer, engineer, guitarist and drummer Greg Lee Bird has since fled his rural Pemberton studio for Perth, vowing to just get on with his life. Meanwhile, in Short & Curly’s nearby