City Fallen Leaves [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Comet Gain

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 2005)
• Original Release Date: November 8, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Kill Rock Stars
• ASIN: B000BKSJFC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #127,356 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Comet Gain are from the same underground British pop scene that brought you Huggy Bear, Clinic, Cornershop, and Belle And Sebastian. Songwriter/front man David Feck is inspired in equal parts by The Go-Betweens, Godard, Irma Thomas, dance parties, Dexy's Midnight Runners, falling in love, mod, and hootenannies. "City Fallen Leaves" is an exploration of what happens in your 30's when you still love all the things you did in your early 20's, when music and love still mean everything but most of your friends have settled into oblivion. There are songs about burn-outs, the end of relationships, boredom, hope, and dreams lost and born again.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great overlooked album, September 30, 2007

By	mountain viewer (California) - See all my reviews

One of the better albums of 2005, but generally not well known. The basic sound is midway between power pop and old-school punk. Indeed it might sound too old-school (derivative) at first, but the psychological and cultural context for the songs is very contemporary. If you have any affinity for the various forms that have emerged from punk in the last fifteen years or so, you should be able to get something useful from this, and if the Pacific Northwest variants (KRS, Barsuk, etc) appeal at all, this should speak powerfully.

There are some slow parts, and the second half is generally stronger than the first. But songs like "Fists in the Pockets" and "Gone before We Open Our Eyes" capture a particular kind of 30-something radical truth that should appeal well beyond genre fans. And "One More Summer before I Go" is one for the ages.

Put that Arcade Fire or Elliot Smith on lay-a-way, and spend this week's discretionary income on a lost gem instead.