Title: the path less bright
Product review: Great album....maybe not my favorite Hooverphonic spin (that would be Jackie Cane) but the one that reminds me most why I enjoy the band. It is so utterly refreshing to hear in a pop band the echoes not of the Beatles, but the Stones, particularly the Satanic Majesties Stones, or the Sticky Fingers Stones. And not because Hoover plays the crypto-psychedelic or heroin.country game, but because it is pop that walks the dark side of the street. This was the utter failure of the Beatles, with their music's dearth of the dark narrative power that came out of the blues, which the Stones used so ably. The Beatles music told stories too, but seldom moved beyond the clever or the flip. Hooverphonic's music evokes something more, something more of the late night than the afternoon, and more than the shiny flash of most techno-ish bands. Substantive music.Sit back and dig the title tune.
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