With their debut EP, two years ago, Safari Season made it very clear that they’re about to warm the cold Northern European nights.
Even though there’s nowhere to use them, after hearing songs like the EP’s title song Growing Young or Here Comes Summer, it wouldn’t come as a surprise seeing their fans spending money on surfing boards, just for the fun (fun, fun) of it.
Naturally, the album continues exactly where they’d left off, with the title song being kind of a Beach Boys-covering-the-Beatles thing, Peaceful being a “wonderful” conceptual follow-up to the “SMiLE” or the bubblegummy surf thing called Ice In Your Eyes.
Though not moving too far away from the initial idea, they also add a thing or two to it, like the orchestral pop wonder of Love Enchantment that could’ve been a hit for any of the Brit-girls in the late ‘60s (think Lulu, Cilla, Sandie, Dusty…), some moody, Lloyd Cole-ish shades in Layabout Dream or even some spiritual feel of Listen To The Wind.
Besides an occasional inappropriate ‘80s vibe on a coupla tunes, this one really can evoke the “sound of the sun”, whatever that might be.
[Released by ZIP 2002]
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