This one came as a complete unknown to me, growing into quite a pleasant surprise too! To cut things short, David McCormack uses similar trickery as Brendan Benson, to put a wide variety of ‘60/’70s influences into the moderndaze context.
If it still doesn’t sound too convincing, then you might want to know the details, such as that the album opens with the monumentally Pulp-ular balladry of the title tune, followed by the Kinky leisury of Who Can It Be? and some gentle, country-ish feel of Woolloomooloo Sunset, which he revisits once again in Lonely.
In line with the latter, there’s also Liquor Store, which might’ve taken Oasis back where they were in mid‘90s, but he sure does get a bit quirky too, as heard in the bluesy, riff-laden piece of appropriately titled rawk-out Hypnotist Of Lady, or the pair in which he sounds not too unlike Beck at his most conventionally psychedelic (Up The Pass), or jangly (Who Could You Love?), while there’s also some heavier garagey organ-isation to be heard in I’m Going To Execute Yr Ex-Boyfriend.
So, wanna know “the truth about love”? … then look elsewhere … here, you’ll get nothin’ but forty minutes worth of good times.
[Released by Laughing Outlaw 2005]
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