After the Cast members have gone their separate ways, I suppose everyone’s guess was that it’d be John Power who will come up with something new.
Well, here comes Pete Wilkinson, teaming up with an ex-La’s/Lightning Seeds member, Paul Hemmings, “aviating” across the moderndaze syke-sky, dressed up in “green pajamas”.
He takes the ethereal production of John’s part of A Day In The Life, as the main inspiration, in making Beatlesque soundscapes full of Moogy keyboard sounds like in Pinhole, or Dancing Bear, with a kinda “walrus”-y quality about it, and I Fell Asleep, which could’ve make a perfect Cast single, while the beginning of Burnin’ Car promises to take you on a ride “across the universe” in a kinda lo-fi ELO-way.
Sometimes it’s taken a bit further, like in the title tune, which reminds a bit of the Modern Life period Blur, trying to build a bridge between the Kinky-ways and some darker, Britpsych ambience, and then again, sometimes it’s just about pure melodies like in False Start, Shoot The Crow or Don’t Trust You Man.
If you’re among those who expected a bit more “power” to the first post-Cast release, believe me that, after hearing this, you’ll be more than happy that things had turned out this way.
[Released by Viper 2002]
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