Take one measure Beastie Boys, and add one measure De La Soul, and grind in some Tribe Called Quest. Include a serve of Cut Chemist flavoured beats, mixed with one serve of MC 990Ft Jesus’ irrelevant rhymes. Stir in some Black Eyed Peas and a little Jurassic 5, and you’ll be able to ‘Taste the Secret’ of Ugly Duckling. The new album, which is a concept album centred around the fast food chain “Meat Shake”, relies less on the concept and more on the fabulous rhymes of Dizzy and Andy C, and genius beats of Young Einstein to serve up a wickedly funny and deliciously clever second album.

The skits between the songs detail the goings on at the fast food joint Meat Shake, where everything they serve has meat in it. You can tell the UD lads have watched way too much television, as many of the skits are advertisement type things with jingles and “grabs” on how much people love Meat Shake. There’s also a couple of skits with the workers of Meat Shake and customers, or with Briana from the Veggie Hut, Meat Shakes’ main competitor, which are brilliantly composed rhyming battles in which the opponents bounce of each other fabulously, reminiscent of old school rap.

Add to this the actual songs themselves, starting with Opening Act, inspired by touring with Basement Jaxx. Then there’s songs which pay out the tough guys who stand at the back of rap gigs and look mean (Mr. Tough Guy), rappers who curse, *cough* eminem *cough* (Potty Mouth), and tartish women (Daisy), to tunes that espouse the virtues of holidaying in Rio De Janeiro, to others that detail workers desire to go home (I Wanna Go Home).

All the tracks are brilliantly written and rhymed, and Einstein expertly constructs the beats and sounds to cleverly compliment the vocals. One example is in the tune Pass It On, where lines about getting fat and building the next Graceland are punctuated by a sample of Elvis saying “Uh-huh-huh”. Abigail Silk is like a 2003 version of Bonita Applebum, and another nod to Tribe comes from The Confrontation, which is a cross between I Left My Wallet In El Segundo and the Beasties High Plains Drifter.

Rounding off the album is quite possibly the world’s first rap lullaby Goodnight Now, a lovely tune sung sweetly that carries you away to la la land. This album has not left my CD, which is rare because I get bored of music very quickly. If you like happy, fun party music that can have a message but doesn’t force it down your throat, grab this album.