2/08/2012
Karibean - ePop019 (2011)
/Alternative pop, Jangle pop, Surf pop, Twee pop, Indie pop, Experimental indie/
Comment: there are 6 tracks spreaded out over 18 minutes. The issue starts off with a tropical pop tuned Christmas song (Xmas Vibrations) (and will be ended up in the same mood - Down Before Christmas). This track and the rest ones on the album include easy, suggestive melodies and harmonies so characteristic to the 80`s twee pop, jangle pop/C 86 scenes (early Primal Scream, The Housemartins, McCarthy, The Primitives etc) which in turn was partially influenced by Beach Boys and other Californian surf pop and sunshine pop groups´ sonorous chirps. Despite of the influences this Ancona, Italian-based trio is a clear-cut entity with its strengths and...more strengths on its own. Because of outreaching the borders of different eras with playful lightness at any moments and including the pieces being essentially strong, in a word, the release can be considered one of the best issues on Eardrums Pop so far.