2008 release from The Bon Mots! "Is the bon mots follow-up record a worthy successor to their 1st triumph? A resounding yes would be the correct answer. While le main drag focused on the downers that life served up, 40 days stretches out Coy and ChialÂ`s uncanny abilities to write intelligent lyrics as complex and significant as Elvis Costello, SqueezeÂ`s Difford/Tilbrook, Ray Davies (The Kinks), and even of XTC, and marry them to tight, hook-filled compositions that breathe the late 70s punk-New Wave style with a modern studio bent that accentuates a 60s garage sensibility, which in turn, looks at matters that convey a more mature appreciation for subjects as far reaching as common relationships, classical literature, global consciousness, and even siring a new generation. The band has expanded their sound with more lush harmonies and deeper instrumentation. YouÂ`ll find yourself humming bridges, hooks, and runs, whistling melodies, and singing choruses and lyric couplings outright. These songs have an uncanny ability of working their way into your brain to a point of subconscious connections heretofore only found on heavily commercialized Top 40 (and believe it or not, thatÂ`s a good thing). The Sophmore Slump? YouÂ`ll have to look elsewhere to find it. This time around the bon mots give us 40 days and 40 nights of upper-class, elder-statesman music aimed at laying waste to an experienced (?) condition all too real in an industry of under-achieving wannabees. Let that be the lesson learned here. " - IndiePenDisc. "Finally in 2007 comes this sophomore release, and it`s just as strong without repeating themselves. A couple of ringing Byrdsian numbers placed near the front slow the momentum of the early going; but that`s temporary, and once again Forty is 13 winners, six from Eric Chial and seven from Mike Coy, who once again split the bass and guitar duties and alternate their songs. A slightly brighter, less shimmery tone makes it a more radio-friendly, poptastic, less garage-y record thatn Le Main. But the group is even tighter: producer Neal Ostrovsky has now taken over drums and added harmonies, both improvements. And the classic pop/power-pop songs and the singing (like Chiaals` on the pedal-steel inflected "Snow") is the band`s killer calling card, the thing that answers any possible criticism over nostalgia. Music of this exquisite caliber is just plain great in any era."-Big Takeoever. "There is no band that understands more the textures and tastes of the 1960s garage-rock stylists than The Bon Mots. In the tradition of bands like The Zombies, The Hombres, The Byrds and even Chicago`s Ides of March, The Bon Mots continue with this second album to take those hallmarks and twist them into their own. Here, songs are not what they seem: "Reasons, Dear," with its bouncy hook and strutting beat, splits open with a guitar solo that squiggles backward and forward in psychedelic glory. These expertly crafted songs -- fizzy guitars, churchly organ, jagged beats -- suggest dark, restless moods that find release in hotshot melodies that do not relent."-Daily Herald. Extremely Highly Recommended!
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