“I just love to get loaded and sing about it.” A line from “Bottom Shelf Blues” explains Morning 40 Federation’s life of leisure on their debut release, You My Brother, 12 songs of praises to booze and the New Orleans style of living. Ninth Warders and Quarter rats can truly relate, too.

M40F, along with Liquidrone and Egg Yolk Jubilee, belong to a recent crop of musicians that defy easy categorization. As M40F weaves through diverse genres, each song varies stylistically, making it pointless to pigeonhole them into any one style. The 40’s take on a burlesque punk attitude heading into jazz, blues, and rock thrown in with some Dixieland and funk for good measure.

Most of the songs are 100 percent alcohol based. Lyrics are simplistic and humorous, as in “Gotta Nickel,” a gutter punk theme, begging for change “You gotta dime, for my good time, gonna get a cheap bottle of red wine.” On “Sorry Mom,” a woozy apologetic ballad, “You treated me well, you fed me my greens, it’s not your fault I can’t stay clean.”

The six-piece band hails from the Bywater and Ninth Ward area and they like to sing about that. “Ninth Ward,” swaggers with funky bass lines and murky blues guitar, “I walk through the Ninth Ward, crazy as a loon, drunk on Green Chartreuse, I coulda got robbed but I spent all my money on booze.” “Bottom Shelf Blues,” fittingly ends the CD, to the 40’s way of life, boozing and sleazy bluesing.

Being an admitted bunch who loves their spirits, the band is amazingly tight. Vocals work surprisingly well in a slightly slurring manner. Seeing Morning 40 live is no comparison to their recorded effort. Their performances are raw and alive and hypnotic when it comes to dancing. A freaky rock ‘n’ roll revival can appear at any show, where one sees tall 40-ounce papier-mâché hats bobbing around in the crowd paying homage to the band. Where half-naked dancers and fully painted nude bodies get down and outwardly sleazy with the group. Morning 40 Federation  show is a guaranteed drunken and free-for-all night for all.