June 16th, 2008
This Hand Has Three Fingers: The Accidental, Looker, Truckasaurus
The Accidental - Dream For Me
Aside from having cover art which I would love to brandish on a T-shirt, The Accidental have a great, bittersweet of a folk tune in Dream For Me; incredibly organic and authentic, this lightly executed but emotionally charged song will sink into your consciousness with its bucolic harmonies and dreamy, restful tones, as wispy as the red-eyed sheet ghost which graces the front of their album.
Looker - Gates Of The Old City
Now for those of us who are looking for a little candy for their ears (because, Heaven knows, we music lovers don’t make it easy on our auditory systems), I propose Looker’s Gates Of The Old City, a sweet and tasty treat of girly powerpop, coated in tangy hookyness and bursting melodious flavour. Jolting guitar riffs blend together with bouncy piano chords charismatic vocals for that special pop-rocks-in-soda feeling without that exploding head urban myth.
Truckasaurus - Super Copter
You know, the only way they could make that new Knight Rider series less obnoxious is if they had KITT go ballistic about gas prices and start fighting oil execs instead of terrorists. Just like if they were to bring Airwolf back, they’d have to use Truckasaurus‘ 8-bit rethinking of the theme entitled Super Copter, lest they bring Jean-Michel Vincent back, the only man I know who would accept to portray a character whose name was “Stringfellow Hawke.” Fippin’ eh.