The renditions of the songs from "Boys Want Sex in the Morning" are almost-but-not-quite as good as the originals. There are a few places where the lyrics are not the same as in the original (niggling things like the wrong pronoun or verb tense - yes, I know I'm way too picky) which detracted somewhat from otherwise flawless performances. It's easy to look past that, though, because the music and the voices are just so beautiful.

Songs like "Isaac's Lament" manage to be extremely funny while retaining a poignant quality that is rare in modern music. The shatteringly beautiful "Silent Night", (the story of a woman going home after her father died), never fails to bring tears to my eyes (and both my parents are still alive). Both the lyrics and the simple melodies of Uncle Bonsai's music always manage to touch me on a deep level I rarely experience in music.

Apart from the outstanding songwriting, one of the key elements to Uncle Bonsai's sound is the voice of Andrew Ratshin. For a while, I thought the group consisted of 3 women (and wondered why there was a picture of a man and two women on the cover of "Boys"). Then I realized that the guitar player (Ratshin) was a man with a very high voice (he goes beyond tenor and into the soprano range). Once you realize that fact, their sound becomes even more remarkable.