ROCK

摘要

This is ridiculously wonderful. New York's Parlour Tricks are restoring pop music to the respectable status it had before the guitar overkill of the early '70s. Leader Lily Cato steers the sextet with a firm hand, keeping her hook-infested melodies and smart lyrics front and centre, but always allows the band to decorate that core with shiny vocal harmonies, perky electronica, rhythmic guitars and solid danceable beats. Any of the ten cuts would work as singles, but 'Lovesongs', 'Requiem' and "The Storm' all deserve to be multi-platinum global smashes. Producer Emery Dobyns merits a special mention for keeping every element spatially located so that everything is audible and yet nothing is cluttered.