That's Not Me

My Baby's Gone Away

In all this listening, this 2019 album emerged alongside the two-year-old EP from these Noble kids from Liverpool… and it’s really great… if all pop were this classy and quirky at the same time… there’s a bit of everything from Sinatra, to Costello, Phil Spector, and Talking Heads…

But maybe they explain it better here…

Inspired by a retro-avant-garde statement from the Strokes (“Imagine you took a time machine into the future and found a classic album from way in the past and really liked it”), Taylor sets up the trompe-l’oeil backdrops for a surreal rock fairy tale that mixes the fluttering pages of entire musical encyclopedias into a dreamy wall of sound that is pleasantly vaporous. Doo-wop, Phil Spector, the primordial rock’n’roll of the Cavern Club, Pet Sounds, psychedelia, garage, Jonathan Richman, baroque pop, Broadway arias, Hitchcockian soundtracks by Bernard Hermann and those of Henry Mancini: everything (and much more) is released and soars in the genre-defying aeropoem of Trudy and The Romance, in a weightlessness that is simultaneously a rhetorical artifice and subtly naïve levitas.

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