2008-03-17
Plenty of riffing guitars, groovy base, and driving beats on this album. Earnest rhythm and blues off the bat with the opener “Her Own Kinda Woman”, complete with bleating brass and hand claps for punch and punctuation. Grittier still is “Cashbox”, a song fit for blasting while doing some hard labor, peeling down a highway, or shooting some pool to. The songs which temper the album work nearly as well, especially the jangling title track with its soft piano touches, the funky “Ever Since Ya Pulled Me Under”, the pop jingle of “Spanish Highway” and the country western infused “Under A Silvery Moon.”- Michael LoffelmanDAVID BAZAN
Fewer Moving Parts EP
THE ELECTED
Bury Me in my Rings
THE GO-BETWEENS
That Striped Sunlight Sound
THE BURNING OF ROME
(Selections from the forthcoming album) With Us
CLUTCHY HOPKINS (MEETS LORD KENJAMIN)
Music Is My Medicine
Rosie Thomas
These Friends of Mine
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