Bubblegum Lemonade - Some Like It Pop - 2013

Bubblegum Lemonade / Some Like It Pop
Жанр: Indie Pop
Страна: Scotland
Год издания: 2013
Аудиокодек: MP3
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: 320 kbps
Продолжительность: 38:32
Треклист:
1. This Is The New Normal
2. It's Got To Be Summer
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4. Don't Hurry Baby
5. Dead Poets Make Me Smile
6. You Can't Go Back Again
7. Have You Seen Faith?
8. She Brings The Sunshine
9. First Rule of Book Club
10. Your Valentine (Takes Me Back in Time)
11. Falling In Love With A Sad Song
12. Mr. Dreaming's Bland House

Об альбоме (сборнике)

Lawrence McCluskey loves jangle pop, which is no news to anyone who has heard his work with his project Bubblegum Lemonade (which most of the time is just McCluskey and his home recording setup). But the third Bubblegum Lemonade album, Some Like It Pop, suggests that jangle pop likes McCluskey more and more with each passing year. Stylistically, Some Like It Pop isn't terribly different than BL's previous work, which is to say it follows the path of left-of-center pop music from the Byrds through the C-86 era to Teenage Fanclub and Primal Scream, but McCluskey's myriad obsessions seem better unified into a warm and melodic style of their own in this third go-round. The tunes move more gracefully on Some Like It Pop, and the overall tone is more playful and a bit less self-conscious than it was on BL's sometimes clumsy debut. McCluskey is still the principal creative voice on this set, but he does bring in a few friends to add vocal and instrumental flourishes, and the result is an album that sounds and feels more organic and comfortable than what one might expect from Bubblegum Lemonade, even on the tracks that only feature McCluskey. And while Some Like It Pop is a considerable distance from wacky, there's more easygoing humor to be found on this album, as indicated in song titles like Famous Blue Anorak, Dead Poets Make Me Smile, and Mr. Dreaming's Bland House. In some respects, Bubblegum Lemonade still sounds as much like a fan's project as a real band, but McCluskey has at least made an album that suggests he's a promising semipro rather than a hobbyist, and Some Like It Pop is his best and most engaging music to date.