Season Of Sweets - Modey Lemon

Advantages: Awe inspiring art-rock
Disadvantages: Once you've listened to this you'll have to buy their first!

...Think White Stripes... Then think much better, add some raw grungy guitar riffs, some late sixties synth, rocking bass lines and awesome drums and you have Modey Lemon. The Curious City opens with an awesome riff and ends on a sixteen minute epic poetical journey... Phil Boyd, Jason Kirker and Paul Quattrone are the guys that make up this awesome three piece. They hail from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and this is their second full length release in the UK. After the success of their first album, Thunder and Lightning, they have taken that same raw energy with the crunching guitar riffs and crazy electronic noise into the Curious City but this time have refined and structured their music much more. This album flows from track to track and the lyrics are poetical genious, if you buy this album it's worth reading through the cover book... Read review

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Advantages: Superb guitars, fabulous drum work and a diverse set of songs
Disadvantages: None yet.

...Modey Lemon are a two piece band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ‘Thunder and Lightning’ is their second release on Birdman Records. At barely twenty years of age Phil Boyd (Lead guitar, vocals, keyboard) and Phil Quattrone (Drums) have their whole musical career ahead of them and from the sound of this album it’s going to be a fruitful one. ‘Crows’, the opening track of Thunder & Lightning’, sets the pace of the album brilliantly. Each second that passes by on this song brings rolling blasts of intensity that evoke influences from so many genres that it would be pure folly to try and list them all here. Inevitably with their distorted, chainsaw guitars and heavy, erratic drumbeats Modey Lemon have been lumbered with the tag ‘garage rock’. In fact, their music could not be further from the monotonous buzz emanating from most... Read review

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Advantages: A Great Introduction To The Music
Disadvantages: Let's Go To Bed, The Walk

...its jazzy drums and double-bass, to its brilliantly scatty piano, "Lovecats" is perfect pop. A brilliantly infectious chorus and a decent (yet still mildly disconcerting) vocal made the song a deserved top ten smash late in 1983. Following on in a similar vein is the odd, yet beautifull "The Caterpillar" - a surprise No.14 single in April 1984. A barbed-wire lovesong, hidden behind a quirky folk mask, The Cure have never tried anything so far out, which remained accessible. Robert Smith's pained vocal is at odds with the summery, upbeat music. Like most material from 1984's "The Top", the song was written during a "chemical vacation"; however I think the lyrics are almost poetic; "Dust my lemon lies With powder pink and sweet The day I stop is the day you change And fly away from me..." 1985's representatives on this collection... Read review

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