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ROCTOBER MAGAZINE, Winter 2007
Under appreciated genius is a bittersweet tragedy! I love hearing
these late/Beatles/inspired troubadours do their thing, and I wish
more of you got to hear them.
HIROSHIMA
YEAH!, November 2006
This time last year I was selling insurance over the phone to poor
saps and hating myself for it. Now, after nearly 12 months of 'resting',
my glamourous life of unemployment is beginning to get rather old,
so what better way to cheer myself up than listening to the annual
summer single from California's Micky Saunders and Chicago's Dan
Susnara? Can't believe a whole YEAR has passed since the last one,
actually, but that only proves I'm getting on a bit, I suppose.
Three tracks here,one unlisted on the nice color CD cover for some
reason. The title track is a groovy mid-pacedpsychedelic jamboreecomprising
(according to the lyric booklet) 'David Byrne-isms, Starship keys
and junk collection'. It's a myth that goldfish have short attention
spans, you know. Only today I was reading about tests that have
been done proving they can be trained to do simple tasks and remember
them months later. "Get Away" is a feel-good poppy number which
combines vocals from both Micky and Dan to fine effect. Love the
guitar solo on this track, too. The trippy, ambient instrumental
piece "Lava Lamp in D Minor (Movements 1—4)" rounds off the disc
nicely, in an Art of Noise kinda fashion (I used to fucking LOVE
that band!). Roll on next summer, I say!—Mark Ritchie |
