"Save Your Face" is a strikingly unique fusion of stylings old and new, taking in post-punk, skiffle, country, blues and vaude ville. Featuring erratic time signatures and favouring rhythm over melody, it has a terse, kinetic power that recalls TALKING HEADS and GANG OF FOUR, but rest assured, THE MULES have not hitched themselves to the punk-funk bandwagon. They understand that it don"t mean a thing if it ain"t got no swing and it"s the album"s topspin - applied via an appreciation of everyone from BOB DYLAN to THE INK SPOTS and HANK WILLIAMS to KURT WEILL - that gives The Mules their distinctive kick.