Missing Monuments- Painted White

Missing Monuments is the new King Louie thang, and it's a pleasant romp through ten pop songs, but   there ain't no 'Gypsy Switch' here, so it's a bit of a letdown. For those not following at home, his majesty put out a record several years ago called Memphis Treet with one killer song on it (and several excellent ones) that trumped anything I'd heard from him on the pop tip (The Persuaders and Kajun SS being whole other things) and hopefully not everything to come. He's a big boy, and I hope he takes care of himself, cuz great pop writers don't come around the block every hangover morning. Anyway, this is fine, but nothing really gets you singing along or tapping your toes with any urgency.  I root for the guy- his voice is endearingly underdog.  But most of these riffs are, in the inimitable words of Lars Ulrich in Some Kind of Monster, stock.  It's nice background music for your coffee and Halloween candy before another day at the gulag, but I doubt I'd pull it out for the late-night shriekalong, and I don't catch myself humming along at odd moments of the day.