Picky Picnic has been played on NTS in shows including samb_rules, featured first on 1 February 2018. Songs played include Aischu No Melody (The Setting Sun In Africa), Hontokana? (Really?) and Blue Mountain 500 Miles Goes By.

Picky Picnic is a Japanese band from the 80s, part of that same movement that musically united The Residents, Renaldo & The Loaf, Der Plan, and Ptôse over the distances. They made a specialty of "family" choruses, as if recorded in their kitchen at lunch time. A visual equivalent could be the "My Neighbours The Yamada" anime, which brings as much poetry through false simplicity.

The band only released one…