Grain Of Salt EP

The Morning Benders | Format: MP3 Download

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• Original Release Date: February 24, 2009
• Label: +1 Records
• Copyright: (c) 2009 (+1 Records)
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• ASIN: B001TMFS32
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,585 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Broken-hearted A-side and new sounds on B's, March 1, 2009

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This review is from: Grain Of Salt EP (MP3 Download)

Berkeley's Morning Benders have been busy boys. They released their first full-length album, Talking Through Tin Cans, this past May to well-deserved media buzz, in July they offered up a free set of homemade cover songs via their blog, and also dropped live sets via LimeWire and Daytrotter. Their choice of covers revealed front-line influences of Brian Wilson, Phil Spector, the Velvet Underground, Smiths, and Cardigans, but also background nods to Roy Orbison, Paul Simon, Randy Newman, and tin-pan alley by way of Ricky Nelson.

Their latest EP, Grain of Salt, opens with Chris Chu warbling in a trebly double-tracked vocal about his perpetually broken heart. Luckily for `Benders fans he's a resilient romantic. The EP's B-sides include the moody `50s-influenced ballad "A Song (Don't Think So Hard)," the acoustic folk "Morning Fog," and the terrific Brian Wilson styled "Your Dark Side." Amazon provides a bonus reworking of the title track that extends the group's exploration of mid-period Beach Boys. This is nice placeholder while the band works on their forthcoming Big Echo CD. [©2009 hyperbolium dot com]