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Every Night

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well it's not "All Your Summer Songs" which was so brilliant that "Every Night" was sure to be on a falling scale, but this doesn't mean that it's a bad record. Far from that, they still stick out of this huge pool of Lo-FI Indie Bands.
I disagree with the predecessing Review. This Band has charm and the lyrics are well thought and adequately sixties. There's "Dialtone" for example which decribes that despite the hype of mobile phones, pagers and online activities it can still be difficult to get through to each other (as said on the LP Version, which differs from the CD).
However, "Summer Songs" kind of created a feeling (of a far too hot afternoon with head spent underwater) whereas "Every Night" is just a bunch of awesome songs, which leave you smiling (This Girl's distracted), simply breathless (When the party ends) or in love (When you got to New York).
Loving it.

I discovered this little gem in the bohemian Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires two years ago. It is lightweight, it is jingly and it is one of the best pieces of pop written from 2004. Totally undiscovered, get it now, and when these guys make it big, you can boast to your friends your prescience in musical matters.

The LP and CD have different mixes, which makes this fantastic album even more interesting.

this is great retro pop. this is a flat out fun cd. whoever gave it a horrible review does not know what they are talking about anyway (for example, this is not their 2nd cd). buy it. now.

on a side note, this band is great live and fred thomas is one of the nicest guys in the business.

Not to sound 'Trendy', but this is the Perfect CD for a cocktail party; chill music for background drinking while discussing contemporary art/politics/hazy unfounded philosophies.

Seriously, this can simply be described as simple, easily enjoyable quality music. Just buy the CD.

This is ridiculous. One of the reviewers even admitted to a bias against the genre but bought the cd ANYWAY. The CD accomplishes what it sets out to do with ease, and the production effort by Fred Thomas is absolutely brilliant. It's hard to ask for much more. Lyrically it's not quite as accomplished as All Your Summer Songs was, but it's important to keep in mind that some of these tracks are redone from their first EP's. The warm, fuzzy sound and retrospective/nostalgic take on both youth and relationships is still intact and as effective as ever. If you don't like saxophones, jangly guitar, male-female vocal harmony, cello, violin, and "wall of sound" production values, then stay away, but for Christ's sake don't give the album a crappy review for the genre it fits into. The fact of the matter is, they're entirely competent at what they do.

sometimes i buy a cd i think might be good but isn't...there is no such suspense involved with this cd...obviously a stinker here..

Well, I gave SLGTM a second chance with this, their second album. I thought the first one, All Your Summer Songs, was way too lo-fi for my tastes, and I definitely didn't hear the allusions to Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Burt Bachrach, et al, that were attributed to them. With this new one, I thought, well, maybe they'd gotten their act together, built on all those promises and had finally put out something closer to the works of those sixties geniuses. Eeeaaagh!! This is much, much worse! I guess if you go for regularly off-key vocals, production mixing that varies the volume from song to song, so that you have to keep adjusting your player's volume, seemingly haphazard arrangements wedded to the lamest melodies and lyrics, and a general sloppiness that masquerades as "charm", then maybe this is your cup o' meat. Seriously, why is this band touted as some kind of resurrection of the best of the sixties styles? It doesn't even come close! This album seems to embody the worst kind of indie lo-fi recording. I kept getting up to turn this off, but then I'd hope against hope that the next cut would redeem the whole thing, but no! The last couple of cuts appear to have been recorded at a live appearance, and whoof, are they bad. Those cuts don't even rise to the low level of the previous inept studio production. This went right into my "Re-sell" pile. Avoid this one, folks.