Blue Jeans aren't a Dave Dundas tribute act (sadly) but instead they're the latest band to feature Veronica Lake's mainstay Tim Sendra along with Fred Thomas who some of you will know from his time with Saturday Looks Good To Me. Sorry, but I don't know anything about the rest of the band.
The Album opens by stealing a T-Rex riff and moulding it into a new far less glam song. Kara Keeley pretty much just begs for Kara to come around and see him and well why not? It's cool and will hopefully stick in your head as you wonder if Kara Keeley is worth the trouble or not.
Ratz Revenge is a bit of a stop-start indie-pop song that seems to have been created to ensure the Ratz can have their revenge and the band can go back to watching endless episodes of the cartoon series. Make Up II Make Up is a pleasant indie love song trying to get back the girl who spurned them in a style not dissimilar to The Vaselines meeting the Delgados after they have been re-located to middle America. It's a good plea for redemption and love.
False Start is about being thrown out of a race that has some really nice organ sounds and suggests like they are trying to update The Pastels sound, although the female vocals from Heather Phares are in some ways the best thing about the song as she really sounds like a woman who can break mens' hearts with her voice alone.
Clean Break is a letter to the other woman going out with Heather's boyfriend which updates the bruised and bothered feel that the Shangri-La's did so well but without that sort of wall of sound but more of an indie strum. Sunscreen isn't the best song I've ever heard on the subject of sunscreen but it's the first one I can remember that goes on about the taste of sunscreen on your neck. It's a bit too slight to be as effective as it should be in trying to get the girl to go back to him.
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Forget That Guy is doing its best to steal a new girlfriend by telling the girl to get over her ex and come go out with him over a nice gentle indie strum that is a bit on the pasty-faced side of the street.
Do You Wanna? has a great bass line that holds the song together as the boy/girl vocals try to decide who will end up with whom and do they really want to do that together. Summer's Almost Gone opens like it is in a closet before the doors burst open and it gets properly summer love and romance on us with a little instrumental bit that could have been nicked off the J Geils Band but they still sound more like the Pastels or the Delgados.
The album closes with the very cool-sounding I Hit The Board which features some really cool synth noises going on over some tremulous strumming and vocals that seem to be about stalking an ex who was a pretty good skateboarder and does far fancier tricks than you're capable of. A pretty great song that made me play it on repeat a couple of times to get the full effect.
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