Fountains of Wayne's like catnip rock critics and music nerds. This is an album full of shots of power pop songs, mostly to the mainstream pop music of shame. But as the band was never visible (or especially selling well), an impression that is made from the consciousness of popular novelty "of the mother Stacy ', so in 2003. However, more refined beautiful songs together leaders Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger wrote that probably has dozens. Especially considering the fact that Schlesinger was a demand for Hollywood ghostwriter, penning the number of movies, such as music and text, and Josie and wild cats.
However, if you can be forgiven for Schlesinger and Collingwood have that magic touch. Fountains of Wayne's latest album, traffic and weather was tough work, but not to the usual high standards of the group. Then there was toned glasses, in 2009, Schlesinger has led the supergroup that guitarist James Iha singer Taylor Hanson, and drummer Cheap Trick Bun E. Carlos. It was one of those ideas that sounded a lot better on paper than in execution, and drew attention to some lazy songs ever Schlesinger.
However, if you can be forgiven for Schlesinger and Collingwood have that magic touch. Fountains of Wayne's latest album, traffic and weather was tough work, but not to the usual high standards of the group. Then there was toned glasses, in 2009, Schlesinger has led the supergroup that guitarist James Iha singer Taylor Hanson, and drummer Cheap Trick Bun E. Carlos. It was one of those ideas that sounded a lot better on paper than in execution, and drew attention to some lazy songs ever Schlesinger.
But perhaps tossed-off nature of the tinted windows just shows that good nutrition-pop time. Sky as an inside back to the top of the Fountains of Wayne in the game. Rocker knife "Summer Place" to gentle closer "cemetery Guns", an album full of beautiful songs. Schlesinger trademark features of the previous hyper-specific texts that begin with "He was afraid Cuisinart / since 1977 / Now when you open the house / She did not set foot in the kitchen", and a lot of bitter nostalgia for the country house of the family. The song throws the guitar, the beautiful melody of the verse, chorus, and pulsing, which slightly increases the use of Farfisa. "Grave Guns", on the other hand, melancholic songs Collingwood military funeral. This effect is not enough to really sell the song as a military trap and the Pacific, accompanied by text.
Another album finds the group stay in a comfort zone at once, and pay dividends to a friend. Schlesinger average tempo of the song as a loping "Ritchie and Ruben," and the slightly bluesy "steel" with perfect pitch songs and entertaining epic. Collingwood comes with a gem, "Who is going to Break Your Heart". Lyrically the song is much impressionistic, passes through some moments before hitting the painfully beautiful pre-chorus and a memorable chorus in the following verse: "Who is going to break your heart / In the cold, gray day," and then stack a series of fascinating "On-the- woah-oh "'s after. As if this were not enough, the next song on the album Collingwood, equally brilliant" dip in the ocean, "fast rocker, which are loaded at least four separate earworms, the best thing for the heavily-laden three-part harmony lines, "Give us a room overlooking the mountains / Little Pig / water so the water".
Errors are small holes in the sky full of numbers, but Schlesinger's "Action Hero" is a perfect example of what happens when you work against specific lyrics. The song itself is very strong, but lines like "his daughter at the same time we say / We only get me, please? / And his wife starts to sneeze / And son threw a pea" to a particular line of sickening. In addition, although the album is almost as good as the Fountains of Wayne ever. Obviously, the shoulder-shoulder most of the Catalog and an even greater clinic songwriter. Yes, I buy Fountains of Wayne catnip when I was music nerd, but now, when I was a rock critic, I can say that the thing is as effective as ever.