You can double your pleasure and double your fun with this two-CD set. The Trolleyvox have a great name, one that makes me think of Misterogers’ Neighborhood, Ultravox and Tralala. Talk about inflated expectations.
For the most part, they are met on “Luzerne” and “Your Secret Safe.” “On the Way Down” is a sweet little number, as is the title track. I didn’t hear any references to Safeway, but it’s still a good song.
“Your Secret Safe” starts off with teacher connotations. For example, the first song is “I Call On You.” Ooh, pick me! Pick me! And the next track? “Reading.” But “It’s Not Real” is what actually gets this album going, even if the melody is the same as “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” After hearing this album six times, I am not sure whether I’ll be back again.
“Rabbit in the Sun” is much peppier, and I wish the rest of the albums sounded like this. Similar to Boyz II Men, The Trolleyvox rely too much on ballads when they should be just a tad poppier and more uptempo. Remember Superdrag? The Trolleyvox could be like them, only with a female singer.
“Anvil” has nothing to do with Warner Bros. cartoons but is a quiet piano and drums piece that should be played during a candlelit dinner, if dinner were only going to last two minutes and 53 seconds. I guess it doesn’t really matter, though, because you’re going to spend most of dinner complaining about your day anyway, so you won’t even hear the music in the background. Well, this time you can use the song as cover when you ask your mate to shut up. You can say it’s because you want to hear the music! This is much better than acknowledging that you’re sick of your mate’s shit.B
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