The promise of Doe Maar's breakthrough album Skunk is fully fulfilled with Doris Day En Andere Stukken, the most complete album in the group's oeuvre. The amusing rhyme of the first single Doris Day is not representative of the rest of the album, on which remarkably mature themes are addressed in intelligent lyrics. Both Henny Vrienten and Ernst Jansz are compositionally in top form, the former
… showing himself a cynical worrier, and the latter a sentimental dreamer. The dynamic that this creates is reminiscent of that other famous duo from pop history, Lennon and McCartney. Doris Day… still sounds like a clock years later. The mix of (dub) reggae, ska and pop is completely crystallized, and filled with all kinds of musical jokes, for which mainly the 'fifth band member' Joost Belinfante seems responsible. But Vrienten steals the show with his deep bass sound, so characteristic of reggae, with which he creates playful counter-melodies. Traditional musical craftsmanship in combination with inspired songs: the hysteria surrounding Doe Maar was definitely based on something. (MS)more