The Seattle-based sextet's second full length album shows, if nothing else, that the band are highly skilled in the art of self promotion. A few minutes surfing on the web will tell you that they have no qualms about hailing themselves as the next big thing.
Time spent recording in Abbey Road Studios (for the EP Naked At The Abbey) may have turned their heads so that they imagine themselves as the new Beatles. They certainly borrow more than a few ideas from the Fab Four's songbook even dusting off a sitar for the closing track Where It Goes.
The track 1971 also suggests that they'd be happy to hop into a time tunnel back to this decade.
What you have here, if I'm not mistaken, is a set of fundamentally simple pop tunes cranked up in an ambitious attempt to thrust them away from the anonymity of small-sized venues and into the arms of adoring crowds packed into stadiums.
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Recorded live to tape by Mike McCarthy at Bear Creek Studio in Seattle, WA, and mixed by Guy Massey it bigs up the sound with swirling psych-rock effects. But no amount of expert knob twiddling can mask the fact that this is a very ordinary set of songs with lyrics that rely more on rock platitudes than heartfelt emotions.
"Can you feel it deep in your bones?" asks Daniel Blue on Changing and I would have to reply: "Sorry guys, but no!"
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