Why I Stay In Bed

Posted on | June 14, 2008 at 10:33 am | Comments Off

eMusic Find of the Day: The Whitsundays’ self-titled debut album. If Americans can do BritPop, I guess Canadians should be allowed to also. This is a pleasant little slice of neo-retro light psychedelic pop that goes down very easily. Love the organ sounds. If one song (”Falling Over”) has a guitar riff that heavily brings to mind the vocal melody of Blondie’s “Call Me”, they can be forgiven since the rest of the song doesn’t sound anything like it. Some of the songs are a bit too mid-tempo or slow for me (”I Want It All”), but they have a lot of atmosphere and the bubblier songs make up for it. The penultimate song “Bring It On Home” goes on too long, and along with the needless instrumental closing the album, it sours me a bit on the album experience as a whole. But up until that point, it’s a good short thrill ride. The band reminds me somewhat of Cinerama (one of my favorite bands) but with fewer songs about adultery. Try out: “The Ways Of The Sweet Talking Boys”, “Antisocial”, “Loralee”, “Falling Over”.