Pinup Girl Is the debut album by Myrtle beach-based duo The Yets who are Robin Wilson and Craig Anderson-Snook who between them have been in among others Skirt, Gross Negligence and Bachelors Of Art.
The album opens with Define the Man a gauzy shoegaze song, that slowly tries to Define The Man she never knew, is it about an absent father, a man that walked away too soon, like the shimmering guitars drifting off.
3's clearly revolves around three notes, three chords, three people trying to figure out how the parts fit together, or 3's studio in Myrtle Beach where they recorded the album. Trying to avoid the next calamity, dashing the hopes of this modern trinity, no matter how fraught the danger in the vocals, this is musically very calm, laid-back layers of guitars and pared back drum pattern.
Black Sheep echoes through the backing vocals, trying to catch you when you fall, but with the Black Sheep now in charge how will we save ourselves, the sheen of glistening guitars may help, but offer no real cure for this malaise we are stuck in.
That's All a cool description of the life she sees for her progeny, with floaty feelings of love and contentment that may never quite be, until the slightly unsettling child's toy piano outro.
Pinup Girl is thoughts of that girl seeing the photographer laughing behind his lens, the spell is broken, the soft caressing music still in thrall to that perfect beauty, whether it's skin deep, or the full package, this feels elegiac for a lost world of innocence.
Enemy is hiding behind the gauze, can you find the door they are hiding behind, guitars slowly build crescendos, are they surrounding you, deep wail sounds the alarm, will the help you need arrive in time.
Chemistry has a dark majesty drawing you together with Chemistry and relativity and all the other wiles Robin conveys in her vocals.
Change My Mind something that seems to have gone out of fashion in a big way, they hope to bring back the power to Change Minds for the better, not the worse, bringing together people in love not sorrow, can you persuade the bad people to finally be kind and considerate, instead of destructive and nasty, Robin flicks through her dictionary in a most sultry fashion. Craig creates this new world of hazy love within the cocoon of guitars shimmering sounds and synths gently warming the senses.
Cronkite is slow moving reportage in the ambient gloom, glimpses of events, unsettling memento mori for the glory days of Walter telling you stories, as events unfolded at a seemingly gentler pace to today.
Hollow Oaks is rather dreamy atmospherics ghost like memories of past skies shimmer in the distance like the far-flung guitar waves washing over them.
Broken Arrow echoes some of the concerns on Neil Youngs Broken Arrow album, delving deep in to the atmospherics of the sorrow from the trail of tears and beyond, into the founding of a nation in blood and sorrow, in the black of night before dawn, the music has more synths but similar aesthetics to Young's treatment of the vast past travails and the scars they leave behind.
The album closes with Paper Ghosts reminiscences of parties long gone, celebrations near forgotten, what are these memories worth, all that's left a few old photos, the slow brushed snare rustling like your sheath of letters, that peaceful night is all that's left now.
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