bret mckenzie

Having already won a best original song Academy Award for his work with The Muppets, Flight of the Conchords co-founder Bret McKenzie continues stretching beyond his beloved duo’s comedy-driven folk rock on his debut solo album, Songs Without Jokes, which is out on August 26 via Sub Pop. The project was produced by longtime Flight of the Conchords collaborator Mickey Petralia and is led by the throwback music hall sounds of first single “A Little Tune,” the video for which finds a tuxedo-clad McKenzie rehearsing for, and then awkwardly fleeing, a gig at the last remaining Victorian theatre in his home country of New Zealand. [embedded content][embedded content] “Post-Conchords, I’d been working on songs for the Muppets films, and during a session, I had the thought that it would ...