Suburban Kids With Biblical Names : #3

<span class="normal"><img src="http://www.qromag.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/suburban.jpg" alt=" " /></span>This Swedish duo churns out rolling dance rock like a coffee grinder full of Mexican jumping beans.  Their new album, #3, is a culmination...
7.3 Labrador
2006 

 This Swedish duo churns out rolling dance rock like a coffee grinder full of Mexican jumping beans.  Their new album, #3, is a culmination of a few years of EPs and festival-playing that’s full of buzzing beats and crooning harmonies wrapped in whirring, acoustic jams that make you want to dance even if you’re sitting down.  It’s a smiling orgasm, a party album that you can put in your pocket, and a canvas of elaborate strokes mixing skiffle, bluegrass, electronica, and beach rock, like Magical Mystery Tour meets Pet Sounds

Johan Hedberg and Peter Gunnarsson have put together a mash of organic power pop that grows best in sun and is magnetizing enough to make you want to enjoy it with a friend.  "Rent a Wreck" has a joggy feel with background "ba"s rolling up and down grassy hills.  "Loop Duplicate My Heart"  is like Postal Service covering The Spinto Band, with sing-a-long fuzztronica that sways like a field of dandelions.  There’s no filler, every intricate detail adds to the greater good. 

With each song around three minutes, they blow by with ease, each presenting a different texture of a grocery’s produce section.  Acoustic guitars, horns, synthbeats, and whistles highlight "A Couple Of Instruments".  The flowing, tenor vocals are a genius combination with upbeat jams and ballads up and down the album.  

There’s perhaps too much going on here to become a major pop hit, but that’s because most people or their crappy stereos couldn’t process everything that’s sprayed throughout #3.  The duo has gone out of their way to make an extensively light-but-dense album that treads the lines of pop, dance, rock, and electronica in a deliciously catchy way.  If all catch-of-the-days were this fresh, we’d never have to worry about food poisoning.

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