They wish it could 1967 again!!! … But don’t we all?
They even refer to XTC and Martin Newell as to their future, and therefore at the moment (of the imaginary 1967) non-existing influences, and as for their own “contemporary” ones, for an observer that’s in the know, the name of the band inspired by the fifth (dimension?) one of the Rubble series, featuring The (pre-Creation) Mark Four, The Poets, The Game, The Attack, Fire and the like, makes it all clear enough.
Both of the tracks from last year’s promo CD single Don’t Make Me Squeeze Yar Balls, Man … (reviewed elsewhere on these pages) are present, with the Blossom Toes kind of a Britsike quirk of Good Girl, now at least equalled if not bettered with the album’s opening title tune, put through an additional XTC filer, the same one that the popsike pair of Spacedust and Black Prince are being put through.
Likewise, the cockney-ish Britpop of the Small Faces-through-Modernlife-era-Blur kind, of the other single track These Nights Are Supernatural is being accompanied with Kitty Ruxpin, while there’s also some equally slightlydelic Drake-meets-Donovan-like folky stuff to be heard in Morning Of Magicians, as well as some upbeat blue-eyed soul in Key To The Sacred Pattern, with some “singing-bird-like” 12-string fills thrown in, just for the jangle of it.
.. and also, I’d like to think that they seem to have been paying attention to my previous review, and therefore giving a much more serious thought to the artwork, here displaying their West Ham United admiration in spite of the several seas between them.
[Released by SoundHawk 2007]
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