Album Review

The Cherry Bluestorms – The Cherry Bluestorms

• 3rd Feb 2008

LA based The Cherry Bluestorms (TCB) are a psychedelic 60s Manchester pop influenced four-piece that will undoubtedly delight any fans of the far-out. Stirring flashbacks of Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable days, could TCB be what all the worlds’ dry and high freaky folk have been waiting for?

Baby, you’re a Rich Man: Urgently kicks in resounding The Carrie Nations (Russ Meyer’s fantastic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls movie)and numerous other bands of that ilk with an unmistakably modern sounding edge that surely comes from its sharp mix/production quality. “How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?” EVERYBODY SING… Okay, you could argue that it’s too repetitive and lacks any lyrical imagination… but you’d lose! Its repetitive construct simply and thankfully enables the listener to dig the track deeper and deeper with every (there will be more than one) listen!

Daisy Chain: Secret Machines fans sorrowfully awaiting their suitable replacement will stand still in amazement with a slack jaw swinging low when they here this. It’s epic and it’s not just accessible, it’s enticing and by gad it ROCKS!

Just a Kiss Away: A ‘Voice of the Beehive’ sounding track sneakily and delightfully approaches Jefferson Airplane territory with some kick-ass guitar and voluptuous vocals that all serve to show yet another dimension to the incredible TCB sound.

Departure: A brief 70s slasher-flick intro engulfs the somewhat contrived ticking of a clock that yes, does illustrate the song’s point of life ever passing us by perfectly, but does come across as being a little too schematic perhaps. Aside from that we’re all good though! Onward then into a more pessimistic, tempered track that boasts the same construct and composition as its predecessors, but it does seem to lack some of the vitality and vibrancy that, until now, had remained the secret key aspect of the TCB sound that makes it so effective. There’s no harm done and the track is still stands up in its own right, it just doesn’t stand so loud and proud is all.

Well what do you know; it is what we’ve been waiting for! And to enjoy it thoroughly I have to recommend that you forget your neighbours and crank up the volume! Deborah Gee, Glen Laughlin,
Ryan Brown and Steve Giles have produced something special here and I’m made grateful once more for my oh so precious, fully functioning ears! And to TCB too of course!

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