THE BON MOTS - Forty Days And Forty Nights With

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 ChialÂs uncanny abilities to write intelligent lyrics as complex and significant as Elvis Costello, SqueezeÂs 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. YouÂll 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, thatÂs a good thing). The Sophmore Slump? YouÂll 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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