Derby-Posters_Fade-2008-404 ARTiST: Derby ALBUM: Posters Fade BiTRATE: 197kbps avg QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz LABEL: Green Submarine GENRE: Rock SiZE: 73.62 megs PLAYTiME: 0h 48min 48sec total RiP DATE: 2008-06-27 STORE DATE: 2008-06-17
Track List: -------- 01. Why Don't You Do It 1:43 02. All or Nothing 3:40 03. Only What She's Selling 4:14 04. Stop Stalling 4:07 05. If Ever There's a Reason 3:59 06. Streetlight 3:50 07. Hopes 3:44 08. Treetops 2:29 09. Michigan 3:38 10. Don't Feed The Bear 3:21 11. Posters Fade 4:05 12. Stumps 2:26 13. As My Own 4:58 14. Episode 2:34
Release Notes: -------- Derby's right about one thing: Posters, like just about everything else left out too long n the sun, eventually fade. What's new becomes old and we move on to find a new new. With posters, like bands, furniture, automobiles and loves, the important thing is to find things that won't fade so quickly. Things able to weather time, sun and the elements. Things that won't get old quickly.
Like it or not, a lot of today's indie-pop outfits' music (and, by proxy, careers) are bound to fade, and fade fast. It's a universal axiom: What's hot today is not tomorrow. Deal with it. Posters Fade should be here for a while, though: Derby plays pure pop that's easily ushered into the indie-pop world but never confined by it.
Posters Fade is indie pop for people who hate indie pop. Derby's just as adept at spinning pure-pop melodies as any of their more fashion-conscious contemporaries, checking everyone from the Beach Boys to The Posies in a gallant, grand and confident take on super-charged melodies, big guitar hooks and sing-along vocals that's certainly vintage in its origins, though, oddly, ready to be put alongside acts like The Shins and Spoon in its quest for the perfect hook. Most important to pop fiends, it's not really too happy with the thought of borrowing too much from the hip-and-cool blueprint. Derby's here to make pop music on its own terms, and those terms are quite agreeable.
Derby comes off as a middle ground between Cats on Fire's cultured pop leanings and the folk-pop work of Band of Horses. And while that sounds fashionable (and it probably is), Derby's anything but ladder-climbing scenesters. "As My Own" unfurls a slowly unwinding guitar melody as harmonies scrub all the grit out of the tracks' rock instrumentation. "Streelight" and "Michigan" suffer from the same over-produced sound that runs rampant in today's pop circles, but underneath the gobs of polish, the songs are fundamentally solid, using pop basics to hold down loose, effervescent tunes. "All or Nothing" and the title track offer guitars that are lodged midway between buzzing '80s-styled indie rock and more modern, jangly tunes, keeping energy and melody alive.
In a decade or so, a lot of today's blogger faves will be nothing more than dated leftovers from our day and age. Posters Fade fits nicely into today's pop scene, but it doesn't sacrifice anything to do it: Underneath the mild allusions to indie-kid fashions, Derby's a hardworking pop act with its heart and hooks in all the right places.
Derby-Posters_Fade-2008-404
ReplyDeleteARTiST: Derby
ALBUM: Posters Fade
BiTRATE: 197kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Green Submarine
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 73.62 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 48min 48sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-06-27
STORE DATE: 2008-06-17
Track List:
--------
01. Why Don't You Do It 1:43
02. All or Nothing 3:40
03. Only What She's Selling 4:14
04. Stop Stalling 4:07
05. If Ever There's a Reason 3:59
06. Streetlight 3:50
07. Hopes 3:44
08. Treetops 2:29
09. Michigan 3:38
10. Don't Feed The Bear 3:21
11. Posters Fade 4:05
12. Stumps 2:26
13. As My Own 4:58
14. Episode 2:34
Release Notes:
--------
Derby's right about one thing: Posters, like just about everything else left out
too long n the sun, eventually fade. What's new becomes old and we move on to
find a new new. With posters, like bands, furniture, automobiles and loves, the
important thing is to find things that won't fade so quickly. Things able to
weather time, sun and the elements. Things that won't get old quickly.
Like it or not, a lot of today's indie-pop outfits' music (and, by proxy,
careers) are bound to fade, and fade fast. It's a universal axiom: What's hot
today is not tomorrow. Deal with it. Posters Fade should be here for a while,
though: Derby plays pure pop that's easily ushered into the indie-pop world but
never confined by it.
Posters Fade is indie pop for people who hate indie pop. Derby's just as adept
at spinning pure-pop melodies as any of their more fashion-conscious
contemporaries, checking everyone from the Beach Boys to The Posies in a
gallant, grand and confident take on super-charged melodies, big guitar hooks
and sing-along vocals that's certainly vintage in its origins, though, oddly,
ready to be put alongside acts like The Shins and Spoon in its quest for the
perfect hook. Most important to pop fiends, it's not really too happy with the
thought of borrowing too much from the hip-and-cool blueprint. Derby's here to
make pop music on its own terms, and those terms are quite agreeable.
Derby comes off as a middle ground between Cats on Fire's cultured pop leanings
and the folk-pop work of Band of Horses. And while that sounds fashionable (and
it probably is), Derby's anything but ladder-climbing scenesters. "As My Own"
unfurls a slowly unwinding guitar melody as harmonies scrub all the grit out of
the tracks' rock instrumentation. "Streelight" and "Michigan" suffer from the
same over-produced sound that runs rampant in today's pop circles, but
underneath the gobs of polish, the songs are fundamentally solid, using pop
basics to hold down loose, effervescent tunes. "All or Nothing" and the title
track offer guitars that are lodged midway between buzzing '80s-styled indie
rock and more modern, jangly tunes, keeping energy and melody alive.
In a decade or so, a lot of today's blogger faves will be nothing more than
dated leftovers from our day and age. Posters Fade fits nicely into today's pop
scene, but it doesn't sacrifice anything to do it: Underneath the mild allusions
to indie-kid fashions, Derby's a hardworking pop act with its heart and hooks in
all the right places.