Are You Falling In Love?
It's like a Pains
of Being Pure at Heart / Los
Campesinos! mash-up, which in essence means a whole lot
of fuzzy noise, guy / girl singing and a big dose of spazzy
Wedding Present-sounding
songs. The band doesn't ever sound like it's quite in control
of what's going on -- and this is actually a refreshing thing,
as a band called Gold-Bears brings to mind names like Grizzly
Bear and Panda Bear, both
of which suffer from being too cool for school. But these guys
bring the energy on each and every song, and a modicum of humor,
some Morrissey tongue-in-cheek
and sometimes just love-oriented goodness. There is a definite
throwback feel going on here, landing this album somewhere in
the early eighties world of cool Brit rock, but certainly giving
it their own spin. The album does progress at a pretty break
neck speed -- in a couple instances barely waiting for the first
song to end before launching into the next -- so it'll take
multiple listens to get a full handle on the thing, but they
have what feels like a fun little album here. |
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