•
Rating:
Do you know this group? Despite their name, they are an Australian octet decidedly pop that has nothing to do with Alvar Aalto. They play a delightful fresh, relaxing, and somewhat childish pop... Imagine Pascal Comelade bringing his art to elementary schools and letting himself be influenced by the little ones, or imagine Belle and Sebastian no longer acting their age and suddenly (unadvisedly?) finding themselves at the enviable age of five, that’s the idea you’ll have of what you’ll be dealing with if you decide to listen to this album.
If you listen to it for the first time, beware! Don’t be deceived, the album grows exponentially as the numbers increase on your player’s display! Try The Owls Go, or Fumble, but even the singles, Like A Call and Kindling, aren’t bad.
A small flaw of the album is the short pieces that are almost instrumental (and sometimes a bit superfluous!).
Be careful, the album is addictive!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
04 Scissor Paper Rock (02:29)
If you're seeking repair,
For figure eights in the ice in your stare,
Seven stories we're climbing tonight,
So if you're angry about the fact that it's red,
I'll surrender,
I'll change it to white.
Sneaking looks at you sleeping around,
At you grass stained and runk on the ground,
So we're taking you down with the scissor, paper, rock again
07 The Owls Go (03:35)
Don't hide the treasures you've found in a hole in the ground,
How 'bout the tree back your house where the owls go,
Or in between the attic and the basement,
Somewhere it's not dark, dark, dark, dark.
Attic in a basement with a knife serrated, I'll protect you,
Don't hide the pleasures you've found in your rolling around,
Where all the leaves have been swept and the flowers grow,
And don't go finding a replacement,
I promise I'll show you heart, heart, heart, heart.
Finding replacement with a heart sedated, I'll forget you.
And you won't make a sound or be nervous around piles of pictures,
So old that that it feels like it is ending.
It's not too late now to change your mind,
The grass gets greener when you get to the finish line.
An attic in a basement,
An attic in a basement,
An attic in a basement,
An attic in a basement,
An attic in a basement,
An attic in a basement.
And you won't make a sound or be nervous around piles of pictures,
So old that it feels like it is ending aloud,
It shouldn't feel like it is ending
09 Kindling (01:49)
You won't count to seven
It's usually 'til ten
To hell with Sydney girls
You're much better than them
On my mattress I've been drawing a line
Where I'll shut my eyes and where you should lie
You should lie
If you should lie
I'll be a lighter of fires
You be the fighter of fires
I'll be the lighter of fires
You be the fighter of fires
Should I choose to stay here now all depends
On buildings, buses, streets, trees, rain and friends
On my mattress I've been drawing a line
Where I'll shut my eyes and where you should lie
You should lie
If you should lie
I'll be a lighter of fires
You'll be a fighter of fires
I'll be a lighter of fires
You be a fighter of fires
10 It's Almost a Trap (02:22)
Steal all the chandeliers down your street and call it romance,
Stop kissing all the neighbours that your brother meets,
Don't promise it's chance.
And I've been saying later lately,
So I'll colour a map,
I'll lead you to the mountains we'll meet,
It's almost a trap
11 Like a Call (03:06)
All the cars down the bottom, windmill chasing
calling police so, so we're placing
weight on minds
Red sports car Northwest dated, counting the sleeps
I'm counting, waiting
stalled inside
There's no tires to save our skins
(they're bald and old)
their advice won't change our plans
Through an old telescope for close up faces
you're cornering the fire it works in your favor
televized
Like the all night long at 3am feeling
you get in your legs when you're dancing on the ceiling
friends of mine
And you change the beat disguised
like a call to realize
you just made a pass in that reflection
you're fixing your hair or asking questions
you decide
turn it around, the place is a fountain youth, you're squealing
offering advice that sounds appealing
nervous fun
'cept the cheating's in your blood
and the hardest word is love
Let's not starve here today, none of that behavior
(i'm not revealing, unless your feelings are long term)
eating like a princess, I'm gonna save you
stay at mine
And we're carving up the courses we're not playing
(i'm not revealing, unless your feelings are long term)
don't want to hear the swear words you're spraying
undermined
I'm not revealing unless your feelings are long term (x3)
It's like a, it's like a call. (x3)
13 City Calm Down (02:49)
Drinking stolen gin from the rich people's bar next door
and awkwardly
I'm leaning on the shoulder of the cousin who you choose to ignore
and she says won't you calm down
city city won't you calm down
we're never gonna get to the bottom while there's traffic around
Passed a little lonely cleanse
If we play our cards right we can be more than friends
still
Oh so s-u-d-d-e-nly
so suddenly
ways of calculating, ways of catapulting you and me
out of this town
city city won't you calm down
they'll never know we're in here if we don't make a sound
Faster we'll divide all the sense
into tiny parcels are you hoping it's tense, girl?
14 Vanishing (04:13)
Is this a fling
It’s seven days and you’re already vanishing
Is this a fling
It’s seven days and you’re already vanishing...
Loading comments slowly
