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so much for the city
So Much For The City Released: 2003 Rating: 8/10 Track listing: 1. Santa Cruz (You’re Not That Far)/ 2. Big Sur/ 3. Don’t Steal Our Sun/ 4. Deck Chair And Cigarettes/ 5. One Horse Town/ 6. Old Friends, New Lovers/ 7. Say It Ain’t So/ 8. Hollywood Kids/ 9. Just Travelling Through/ 10. Your Love Is Like Las Vegas/ 11. ‘Til The Tide Creeps In You know, Irish music to me has always been either U2 or Sinead O’Connor imitations or clean, plastic, teenage fashion oriented pop stuff such as The Corrs, Ronan Keating and similar bland forgettable people. However, The Thrills change all that. What we got here is young people with a huge interest in American music. It seems like they’ve spent every moment in their lives to study the secrets of the Beach Boys, Phil Spector and The Beatles. Most of the songs are carefully produced, based on a traditional rock setting. Bass, drums, guitars, keyboards, nothing spectacular. However, every once in a while they decided to fill out the arrangements a bit. Songs such as “Your Love Is Like Las Vegas” ends up sounding like a Soft Bulletin left over. Especially since the singer, Conor Deasy, sounds very similar to Wayne Coyne in places. A highlight of the record indeed. Other personal favorites are the uplifting single “Big Sur” which lends lyrics from classic pop songs (“hey hey we’re the Monkees, people say we monkey around”, and the title is a Beach Boys’ title, just to mention a couple of things), “One Horse Town” stands out as a modern classic in every way and “Santa Cruz” is simple and lovely Beach Boys-pop. This is a band to watch in the future. Probably favorites of the critics, reaching somewhat underground status. This is the debut. It’s great. I sure will follow The Thrills, excited to find out where they will go next. Potential's the word.
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