Artist	Song
Cotton Mather	My Before & After
Cotton Mather	Camp Hill Rail Operator
Cotton Mather	Homefront Cameo
Cotton Mather	Church of Wilson
Cotton Mather	Password
Cotton Mather	She's Only Cool
Cotton Mather	Lost My Motto
Cotton Mather	El Matador
Cotton Mather	Missing The Boat
Cotton Mather	Altar Boy (Jimbo's Theme)
Cotton Mather	AMPs of Sugarland
Cotton Mather	Baby Freeze Queen
Cotton Mather	40 Watt Solution
Cotton Mather	Glory Eyes
Cotton Mather	Panama Slides
Cotton Mather	Story of Anaa
Future Clouds & Radar	Let Me Get Your Coat
Future Clouds & Radar	Hurricane Judy
Future Clouds & Radar	Drugstore Bust
Future Clouds & Radar	You Will Be Loved
Future Clouds & Radar	Holy Janet Comes On Waves
Future Clouds & Radar	Our Time
Future Clouds & Radar	Get Your Boots On
Future Clouds & Radar	Build Havana
Future Clouds & Radar	Dr. No
Future Clouds & Radar	Back Seat Silver Jet Sighter

Comment:

A quickly-cobbled-together ode to one of the unsung power pop bands of the past decade. Got turned on to 'em after picking up the eponymous debut of Future Clouds & Radar, my favorite release of 2007 -- a sprawling, 2-cd set of home-brewed experimental chamber pop & power pop. Yes, as is often the case, it's overlong and deeply flawed, but loads of juicy pop nuggets. As one critic (i.e. me) has put it, just imagine Robert Schneider of Apples in Stereo and Robert Pollard of GbV trying to recreate the White Album from scratch, and you sort of have it.

Frontman Robert Harrison (yeah, all Roberts, how about that) previously spent several years fronting Cotton Mather, a more traditional power pop band with all the usual benchmarks -- shades of the Beatles and Squeeze, crunchy chords alternating with melodic ballads, soaring harmonies, bolstered by Harrison's disturbingly Lennon-esque vocals. Their catalog is completely out of print here in the States, and many, many thanks to Cliff for supplying the albums for me.

Feedback: