The EZ Bake Organs are three women vocalist/organists—Helena Shoh, Kathleen Kraus and Myshkin—who are part of what I recently heard described as “the snooty Ninth Ward art scene.” Since I have devoted most of my adult life to lampooning the denizens of the Ninth Ward, the news that the realm of Vic and Nat’ly could possibly be “snooty” is shocking. What’s next? Will Kenner suddenly become cool?

But, I digress: EZ Bake Organs bear not a whiff of snobbishness. They harmonize like a choir. Their organ-playing is very cheery. They are incredibly goofy and funny. “Nature Babe” is the story of a woman with terrible cramps who goes through electroshock therapy and can now provide power and light for half of Tampa. “Delicious” details the problems encountered by a hungry teenage girl who has succumbed to the bizarre addiction of baking biscuits on a light bulb in her bedroom. One of the biscuits catches fire so she spits on it to put out the flames, which shatters the bulb, leaving our heroine with a glass-encrusted biscuit. “Mac Eno Maraschino,” I think, is an instrumental homage to Eno, Dr. John and cherries. “The Only One” is the exact opposite of a love song, exposing all the pleasant virtues of homicide, including the bright idea of mixing ground glass into your victim’s coffee. Actually, the more I consider the EZ Bake Organs, the more careful I figure I should be with my critique. Forget what I said about “goofy and funny.” They are gorgeous and brilliant! Can’t be too careful…wouldn’t want to be cruising through the Ninth Ward and have my Honda crushed by a catapulted load of cane syrup diluted with cyanide. Reader, stop reading and take all of your money out of the bank and invest in EZ Bake Organs CDs! Ladies, I’m on your side!