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Comet GainCity Fallen LeavesContributor: ValentineAh, sweet, sweet indie pop. It makes you feel nice and happy musically, and then you listen to the lyrics and realize people are dying inside. Of course, the Brits do it best, what with them having their own genre called “Britpop.” Whatever. Comet Gain seem to have been around for a while. Their discography shows a lot of releases. I can’t say that I had ever heard them before, though. Seeing as how they have been around since 2003 -- and that they are playing the genre of music I listen to most -- I really should have listened to them before. Maybe I did. While I enjoy City Fallen Leaves, I am not left thirsting for more. This is pretty good indie pop. The guitars are what you would expect from that genre, clean and/or jangly at times, crunchy and/or fuzzy at others. The vocals are nice and clean -- no annoying whine or nasal tone -- yet not too pretty. There are male and female vocals here. Sometimes, the male voice takes the lead, and sometimes the female voice takes the lead. They back each other up well, when needed. I really haven’t been listening to the lyrics, but they are readily discernable if you want to. I made a crack about indie pop being depressing, but I don’t know whether this is. No lyrics jumped out at me as being overly emotional or silly or anything. On at least one song, there is a bit of craziness going on -- some noise and whatnot. There is also a song with music and a voiceover. I don’t know whether it is just on my copy, but this track gets louder than all the other ones. Maybe it’s because it is a pre-release or something, though, and it has been fixed before going to print. Maybe it is intentional. If it is, it seems inappropriate to me. But who am I? They are from England as well, sort of. Since forming, the entire lineup, save singer Dave Feck, has changed. I don’t know what their nationalities are now, or whether they can still be considered Britpop. I don’t know whether they could have been either, because I don’t even know what “Britpop” means, other than it being a setting on a guitar amplifier, or so I've been told. City Fallen Leaves is really a pretty good indie pop album. It is well-made and comes across well. It has got the hooks and melodies, as well as the occasional non-pop elements to keep it from being to cheesy. I’m not in love with this album, but I will keep it in my collection and probably give it more listens. There are definitely some standout tracks that I have been humming afterward, even when I hadn’t listened to the thing for a week. You can contact the author at: valentine@agouti.com 929 |
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