Saturday, January 17, 2004

Listening: Through Glass-Covered Roses: The Best of the Green Pajamas Ah, homeboys (and, of late, -girls). This band's been at it since '84, and from everything on this CD it sounds like they really liked the precious, baroque-style psychedelic-revival sounds of L. A. bands like The Three O'Clock. So their notion of psychedelic is twinky by definition, but it's also sweet, and it can rock out when it wants to. I also like the fact that along the way they recruited Laura Weller who'd been one of two members of much-missed gal pop band Capping Day. She functions a little like Neko Case in the New Pornographers--power and soul from just behind the frontman. Mark's rating: ***

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