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Thin Mercury Sound

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If you are a music addict, you will be scratching your head after you listen to Caviar's "Thin Mercury Sound"...genres, styles, props to the past and actual samples skip around like a warped vinyl copy of "Fragile" from Yes. The well-produced, slick and suave "Aloha" kicks it all off feeling like Beck meets the Killers. Current single "Lioness" offers great melodies, harmonies and guitar tones while "You've Got a Black Black Heart" sounds like a sinister version of Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark and is one of my faviorites on this release. "On the DL" pays homage to everyone tomcatting around the globe and thus, I love it. "Deep Down I'm Shallow" offers all of the wall of guitar sound that their predecessors Fig Dish did, but with the groovy backbeat of some Swedish rave band. Great harmonies and swelling guitar couple to make this the song that should be the theme for any "Shallow Hal" remakes. Personally, the clever penmanship behind "Where Are You" cracks me up every time...sort of like reading "The Catcher in the Rye" in the fall...I know I should be melancholic and remembering of my youth when I hear it, but instead I giggle like a schoolgirl while I pound my fist on the steering wheel. "10% November" smells as fresh as the lower East side curry that likely inspired it. Trippy, groovy and hard to further describe, let's just say I find myself 100% November! "Last Rays of the Sun" finishes the set up and it is as fine a pop song you will hear nowadays.

Caviar...the name evokes thoughts of wealth, smoothness and sipping overpriced Cabernet at the Tribeca Grand...well, these guys should be the house band there. A really, really entertaining release from beginning to end. A sincere nod to Blake, Mike and the gang. Buy it before some major label picks it up and insists on guest appearances and gold lame suits.

First off, this is a great album and should be enjoyed by everyone. I really hope Azera steps up and puts the buzz out to ensure proper promotion of Caviar and their work. These guys put a lot into their work and it shows. This album takes all the best that Caviar has to offer and expands on the base they set up on their debut (the self titled Caviar) with more superb vocals, clever lyrics, catchy as hell choruses and the ability to rock. Personal favorites include
Lioness
Aloha
Hey Let Go
Deep Down I'm Shallow
Last Rays of the Sun
This is a MUST OWN. It is beyond me why Caviar is not ruling the airwaves. Also, if you haven't done so, see these guys live and do yourself a favor and add and their debut to you your collection. You will be an instant fan and will not be disappointed.

You'd think that after 4 years since their last full-length, the Caviar guys would have given up. Yet with their latest album, The Thin Mercury Sound, they have take their music to yet another level.

Mixing what's best about pop music (the humor, the catchiness) with great guitars, excellent drums, and eighties-style keyboards, Caviar has what should be another hit on their hands.

The album's first single, On the DL, is a classic. But there are plenty of great tracks on The Thin Mercury Sound. Lionness sounds like vintage Echo & The Bunnymen, updated for the masses, while Clean Getaway, (with its early New Order guitar) and The Last Rays Of The Sun are some of the best summer songs I have ever heard.

Do yourself a favor, get this album. You'll like it, your friends will thank you for turning them on to good music.