Household Names - Picture In My Head

GREAT power pop band from Texas and on their third release they hit the target big. Household Names is a rock band combining smart, emotional lyrics with pitch-perfect songcraft on top of a powerful rhythm section, a band that most Not Lamers will not only `get`, but be thankful to own. " The second album from this highly stylized local pop trio is precision-tuned and oversoaked with hooks. Cynical chin-scratchers might quibble with the notion of always aiming for the universal chord, but it`s rare to find capital-P Pop pulled off with such a slick punch, particularly in an organic-leaning nape like Austin. Ace producer Lars Goransson mixes Picture in My Head extra hot, which compliments Household Names` big bright sound well....fueled by the same unrequited aspirations as Big Star devotees like Matthew Sweet and Jellyfish. Soaring group harmonies and a snap rhythm section add to the wallop. The latter figures prominently in "The Latest Success," an urgent, hold-and-release power cut that makes you want to drive too fast. "Anytime, Mrs. K" is a summer-sweet mash note to a fleeting office fling that sounds like the logical successor to Fountains of Wayne`s "Stacy`s Mom." The only thing missing from the Top 40 circa 1979 yearn of "Beggar`s Radio" is transistor-radio crackle, but that production trick shows up soon enough between the lushly padded choruses of "Handle On." As tricked-out as these sounds are, they remain secondary to Household Names` quest for the perfect pop song." - Austin Chronicle.

"Their music inspires many of the same feelings that more blatantly commercial records do - swelling joy, monumental melancholy, the inescapable urge to sing along - but it`s music for the mind as much as the ears." - Music Austin. Big Time, Extremely Highly Recommended!

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