Gavin Bowles & the Distractions
Phoning It In
(Stranger Than Fiction)
Unwrap the package and savor sweet confections of Power Pop piquancy. Neither conscience nor nutritional concerns should preclude pleasure. Constructions are scrupulously compact, and infectious bouyancy overwhelms. That delightful songs triumph in their sprightly dispatch would not be possible, were bandmembers not eminently adroit. Perhaps sentimentality colors recollections of the 1970s and '80s, making them seem less fraught with troublesome complexities, but radiant songs like these shined in those eras. And they make life today a positive gas.
Recommended: "On the Telephone (I Used To Call You)," "Out Of Time," "Working Class Stiff," "Break My Heart," "I Don't Know What I Want," "Dance Your Heart Out," "Gimme Gimme Hostility"
Video: "On the Telephone (I Used To Call You)"
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