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Written by Alex Price
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Monday, 25 May 2009 20:57 |
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L.A. lounge-pop duo
THE BIRD AND THE BEE,
deliver wonderfully-catchy melodies and
intricate instrumentation.
Inara George's sultry voice
sends tingles throughout your body, like she’s wooing you on-listen.
Along with near-perfect influences streaming throughout the record, that would make any ‘rock snob’ take a second glance (Burt Bacharach, Antonio Carlos Jobim, the Bee Gees).
Make no mistake -
this is not another blasé generic "typical" sounding,
lowest-common-denominator-natured album.
‘Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future’
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For the most part, the record is carried by bossa-nova chord-changes, analog keyboard bleeps and icy-cool vocal delivery, which gives a taste of something different for the genre... But the songs seem to intermingle a little too much.
The line between songs begin to blur.
Stand-outs on the album are without a doubt the lush ‘My Love’, ‘What’s in the Middle’, the bubble-gum-hit ready for a Justice or Soulwax remix ‘Love Letter to Japan’, along with ‘Meteor’.
‘Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future’ hits more than it misses... and is the soundtrack to your lazy summers day, rainy night or nostalgic walk down the beach.
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