Real Happiness is Pearie Sol's first album for Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records and some of you will know him from his time in Gauche, Pearie makes outsider Post punk and comes from the Washington DC underground.
The album opens with the slow organ led Take My Body before Pearie's rather strained vocals come in and start to mewl and strain as he asks you to Take His Body as if he is ready to meet his maker rather than submit to sexual excess, this has an edge of paranoia in the vocals set against the organ led song.
Real Happiness is a straining at the leash cry for happiness with the urgency of Electric Eels or any other Jamie Klimek style band as the Organ sounds like he is channeling Ray Manzarek.
Apathy opens in the style of an indie Augustus Pablo on a song that ought to be drowning in reverb and echo as Pearie sings about how he feels like he is drowning in Apathy bringing him down and well maybe he will find a way to break the spell.
Spanish Pain opens like it's a church organ at the start of mass before going far more fairground on us before the vocals come in to take us to a part of Spain every bit as odd as the one Kevin Coyne conjured up on This Is Spain.
Slime Pit has some real speedy organ barreling along threatening to throw you into the sort of Slime Pit they had on Kids TV programs in the 70's and 80's this is almost like Jimmy Smith trying to go psych punk, it's all kinds of odd in a very endearing kind of way.
Marched On opens with a solo almost classical piano as this lament to the sheep that keep on Marching On towards a possibly terrible fate.
November Frost reminds me of Moustache Of Insanity and has quite a fairy tale like feel to the tune that isn't quite reflected in the lyrics.
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The album closes with This Time which is a plea for a different outcome to usual and hopefully a better one than before, although what will bring about the change isn't clear although it might be the delightful piano lines that run through the song.
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