Seeing how the software industry is gung ho on labeling and rating it's releases, I think it's only fair that Record Companies include with each retail copy the same promo material sent out with advance copies, so we know wants really being bought.
Case in point the following blub sent along with a CD that came out this year. Had this been available at time of purchase I most certainly would have never bought. Truth be told I would have never bought anyways but... The names have been omitted to protect the innocence of the bands future childern.
While the tracks for "XXXX" are far less jokey than the band's past songs, humor still leavens an apparent grumpiness about romance and relationships. It's comic relief in more ways than one, because it's proof that not everything about BAND has changed. For all the record's artistic leaps, for all the studied song craft and growing maturity, it's clear that the opposite sex messes up these guys as much as it ever did. "We're still battling with girls," say BAND MEMBER "We're still kind of young."
The first single "TITLE", is catchy as all get-out, and features time-signature shifts between the chorus and the verses. "The chorus is whatever tempo it is", BAND MEMBER says, "and the verses are a whole different tempo - it was kind of a "let's see if we can do this" type of thing. And I guess we did it, because it's a single". The song also drag 30 year power pop conventions into the 21st Century by dropping a jabbering rap in the middle. Even better it's a ebullient song about sex.
The evidence of BAND medical journal-worthy growth spurt is in ALBUM "TITLE" begins with a gentle arpeggio of a guitar and some plaintive musings on a relationship, before turning the incipient emo sensitivity on its ear with Queen -like guitar flourishes and wry lyrics like DELETED FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION and harmonies layered like a wedding cake. It could be a lost Jellyfish song, and only in part because that band's MISPELLED NAME OF JELLYFISH MEMBER helps frost the (slightly bitter) confection with some vocal harmonies.
(Translation, our manager's girlfriend choose the the first single, but the record co had to go out and buy a second single as a fall back.)
"TITLE" is where you'll hear the influence of The Cars. Heavy riffs underscore lyrics about the outcome of the last presidential election on "TITLE" "TITLE" tethers its chugging chords to soaring melodies, and its lyrics, a balance of defiance and denial, are as funny as they affecting.
Other obvious signs about this record include the use of several producers include ones who share writing credits. And a song with a French Title and English subtitle.
And rest assured Bags, it wasn't that member of Jellyfish who helped out...
Haven't heard it yet, It will take more than a double dog dare to do so...
