My Heart Is Breaking, But In A Good Way
1st March 2006 by
Review: Tiger and Napoleon Dynamite EPs — The Hussy’s (available from the band by post or ebay).
Tiger opens with the bouncy, slightly Coral–ish title track, which reminds me of Dreaming Of You quite a bit. Then there’s the spikily accusing We Expected and Warm & Fuzzy, which brought to mind ace but search engine unfriendly Danes Nu (whatever happened to them, anyway?). It closes with the super–sweet, Spector–esque, wall–of–sound lament of Snowboard, which is definitely my favourite track from either CD. These are great songs and I’ve been playing this all day.
Napoleon Dynamite is maybe a little bit more gimmicky in places but the influences (or similarities anyway) are harder to place. The eighties, novelty song, one–hit–wonderness of Rock Concert could easily outstay its welcome, I expect, but ends just in time. The falsetto backing singers on Friends Reunited made me laugh, in a good way. And again, the last track, Marty, is maybe the strongest.
(I suspect I’m not selling this terribly well. Hang on…)
Spangly, jangly indiepop that’s too chirpily cheerful for me not to love, with the sort of bitter–sweet, magic in the mundane lyrics that characterized much of C86. Looking forward to seeing them live sometime. Also: girls with pink hair = hott, obv.
