A most excellent, cool quirky pop in the vein of my much beloved Field Mice. Each listen reveals something new `n fresh. Add XTC, early Squeeze and Brainiac to the mix. Get Young is ten tracks of sharp-toothed, heavily armed, snappish pop songs. Some of this material leaves me breathless upon first listens as XTC and Field Mice do, what can I say other than I love this new band and want to take them home and BBQ with them. As relentless as it is irreverent, Get Young is a one-two punch, a collection of brashly anthemic pop songs without an aural snag to be found, and something much stranger... something with a battery of sputtering machines tucked deep in the underbelly. Listen in and wait as the pop walls begin to crumble. "Piranha"(song #1 below) is a ravenous number that recalls the blistered pop audacity of early XTC, repeating its hooks like a mechanical hound relentlessly tickling your feet with its animal tongue. "Tora Tora Tora" has the last laugh in pop, jerking it`s listener around by the neck while they cackle hysterically; like Devo at 11 with the rafters rattling. This is the giddy nature which characterizes most of Get Young. Imagine Elvis Costello genetically spliced with an Andy Kaufman type of prankster... Perhaps Giddy & Nice might seem a better name for this group (though once you see them in swimwear, the word `pretty` starts to make a strange kind of sense). EXTREMELY Highly Recommended!
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