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Mull Historical Society's second album, Us, could be seen as their Pet Sounds, especially as the resolutely sunny choruses and quirky sounds of their debut album, Loss, pegged the indie duo as the Inner Hebrides' answer to the Beach Boys. Where once bric-a-brac accompaniments lent idiosyncratic charm to their sweetly optimistic take on the trials of small-town life, here they create magical landscapes. Even without the cosseting arrangements, the cosily swaying "Oh Mother" and "Clones" would be beautifully tender. "Live like the Automatic's" would be a rousing, headlong charge and the tear-stained &
Mull Historical Society's second album, Us, could be seen as their Pet Sounds, especially as the resolutely sunny choruses and quirky sounds of their debut album, Loss, pegged the indie duo as the Inner Hebrides' answer to the Beach Boys. Where once bric-a-brac accompaniments lent idiosyncratic charm to their sweetly optimistic take on the trials of small-town life, here they create magical landscapes. Even without the cosseting arrangements, the cosily swaying "Oh Mother" and "Clones" would be beautifully tender. "Live like the Automatic's" would be a rousing, headlong charge and the tear-stained "Don't Take Your Love Away from Me" would no doubt still have a tragically hopeful ring. But wrapped in an unobtrusive, yet fantastically sensual blanket of Beach Boys harmonies, swirling organs, tubular bells, plaintive pianos, woozy strings and twinkling harps, the innocence of their tunes is turned from twee to beguiling. True the unrelenting cheer--peaking with a Snow White style fluttering of flutes at the end of the title track--does eventually begin to grate. Even so, with an ease of pace and heart-warming glow that's about as divorced from the grim trudge of reality as anything can be, there's nothing better to daydream to. --Dan Gennoe
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Manufacturer: Blanco Y Negro
Release date: 3 March 2003
EAN: 0092749758298 UPC: 809274975829
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