- Audio CD (6 Dec 2010)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Pink Hedge
- ASIN: B00481IUZY
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 256,483 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Shindig!
Gorgeous harmonies, catchy as flypaper melodies, melancholic navel-gazers, hummable choruses, and jingly-jangly head nodders.
The Big Takeover
The kind of excellent record that leaves one wondering why Garfields Birthday aren't legends in the power pop underground.
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Format:Audio CD
Garfields Birthday - More Sense Than Money (Pink Hedgehog)
There was talk of Pink Hedgehog becoming a digital-only label, but there must have been a change of plan because the new Garfields Birthday release is a proper CD in a proper case (phew). The Weymouth quintet, lead by label owner Simon Felton (go to the PH website and sign up for his strangely life-affirming e-mail updates) have been pushing the Brit-pop envelope for as long as I can remember, and "More Sense Than Money", with it's clever wordplay, crunchy guitars and melodic glut shows no signs of plans being changed. 8/10.
There was talk of Pink Hedgehog becoming a digital-only label, but there must have been a change of plan because the new Garfields Birthday release is a proper CD in a proper case (phew). The Weymouth quintet, lead by label owner Simon Felton (go to the PH website and sign up for his strangely life-affirming e-mail updates) have been pushing the Brit-pop envelope for as long as I can remember, and "More Sense Than Money", with it's clever wordplay, crunchy guitars and melodic glut shows no signs of plans being changed. 8/10.
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Quickly following up Tea and Sympathy, its excellent compendium of early tracks, Garfields Birthday issues More Sense Than Money, a set of brand new tunes. Now firmly under the control of Felton brothers Simon (bass, vox) and Shane (guitar, engineering), the British quartet luxuriates in winsome melodies, 60s atmosphere and sentiments so sweet as to be almost syrupy, if not for the sincerity with which they're delivered. "Wandering our way through the market with love on our mind," Simon sings in 'Cambridge' over a lovely melody for a track that brings to mind the early Bee Gees more than bad romantic poetry. (The Hollies and The Posies seem to be the band's other major touchstones). Besides, the cuts' outer sugar often masks a sour undertone - cf. 'Cool Your Jets', 'King Rat' ("What am I supposed to do when I'm killing you?") and the gently nasty 'Short Straw' ("If I can't have you," breathes Simon prettily, "I'll have someone else"). But even if you pay little attention to the words, you can still be swept away by Garfields' penchant for beguiling melodies and sweet sibling harmonies on the crunchy 'Carry On Karaoke', the psychedelic 'Normality', the garage-rocking 'Better Things' and the soaring 'Future Song'. With only one misstep - did 'King Rat' really need Autotuned vocals? - More Sense Than Money is once again the kind of excellent record that leaves one wondering why Garfields Birthday aren't legends in the power pop underground.
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For those of us fortunate enough to be in on one of pop music's best kept secrets, we expect exciting things from Garfields Birthday and with "More Sense Than Money" they don't disappoint.
A quintessentially Brit-pop album with strong melodies and highly original lyrics which can be fully appreciated by the fact that you can hear and understand every word from vocalists who don't feel the need to affect a transatlantic accent.
There are no "fillers" on this CD, not that I'd excpect any from this band, but if I had to select stand out tracks I would offer "Cambridge", "Carry on Karaoke", "Short Straw", "Bubbles" and "Garden Wall".
"Cambridge" has a real Simon & Garfunkel feel to it and "Carry on Karaoke" has that quirkyness that could easily have come from the pen of Ray Davies.
Musicianship is first rate with no over-long self indulgent solos but the strength of this album is it's lyricism.
A quintessentially Brit-pop album with strong melodies and highly original lyrics which can be fully appreciated by the fact that you can hear and understand every word from vocalists who don't feel the need to affect a transatlantic accent.
There are no "fillers" on this CD, not that I'd excpect any from this band, but if I had to select stand out tracks I would offer "Cambridge", "Carry on Karaoke", "Short Straw", "Bubbles" and "Garden Wall".
"Cambridge" has a real Simon & Garfunkel feel to it and "Carry on Karaoke" has that quirkyness that could easily have come from the pen of Ray Davies.
Musicianship is first rate with no over-long self indulgent solos but the strength of this album is it's lyricism.
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