Her Favourite Disguise is the latest album by New Jersey indie rockers The Melancholy Kings who are Mike Potenza, Scott Selig, Peter Horvath, Paul Andrew, Mac Gollehon, Carolyn Jeselsohn, Ray Ketchem, Renee LoBue, Carl Riehl and Olivia Selig. The album was recorded and produced by Ray Ketchum at Magic Door Studios in New Jersey.
The album opens with the very not melancholy Six Feet Down a bitter intense rocker claiming the next time he'll see you, is when he is Six feet down, deep in the ground. Victoria is carefully enunciated song of heartbreak with hopes of redemption, he wants to be your new beau, he wants to be in like Flynn with the guitars getting more urgent like the pleading in the vocals.
New Girl is soft plaintive praise for his latest femme fatale, he's addicted to her like he is to cigarettes, he just needs one more kiss like he would need one more ciggie, while he gently reveals she may be a figment of his overactive imagination, over the sparse barely there backing. The single Bitcoin Elegy is full of the vows, that you'll blow all your Bitcoins on your latest passion, hopefully the price won't crash before she's yours and you can enjoy your profits together. Kensington is sparser reflections for things that happen in Chenistun, while they are hoping to be in the city of brotherly love rather than on Henry VIII old patch, this is a postcard wallflower jangle pop song.
Steady As She Goes and she's driven him to drink again, she will always be his north star, but well she may have other ideas, on this classic sounding, power pop love falling apart and hopefully resolving, drama unfolds, they hit the guitar pedal that makes a rather joyous sound for the short solo, while waiting to take the food out the oven once more.
Astor Place opens in mid-summer in New York while they just want to get away from the suffocating heat and the grind of the office every day, it's time for a change of pace and to get away to bucolic New Jersey in search of a new gilded age before they go all zydeco dreaming of that mood taking them somewhere better.
UV is Big Star meets the Octopus Garden musically, with the slow laconic lyrics for no longer caring what happens, hoping things will move on to better things with no regrets or bitterness, even if the second half of this song, goes a well bit odd, with great backing vocals and trumpet solo.
Alex Bell is the ghost that haunts them all over town, despite the crunchy guitars and everything he perceives you've influenced in the whole wide world, continually appearing to him every time another ghost appears. The album closes with the brief Cold Side Of The Pillow a bitter twisted barb at a less than faithful partner.
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