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The Vestals by The Vestals
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fave it British Pop | 70's Pop
10 tracks | 33 minutes
Released Sep 2004
on Warming House Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:05 Seven Hours lyrics BUY MP3 04:05 Seven Hours lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:05 Seven Hours
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:48 Telescope lyrics BUY MP3 03:48 Telescope lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:48 Telescope
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:40 Before the Color Dries lyrics BUY MP3 02:40 Before the Color Dries lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:40 Before the Color Dries
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Literate, sophisticated pop that will remind listenrs of the favorite songs from pop icons like XTC, Jellyfish, Rufus Wainwright and more. Soaring harmonies, tapestry-woven arrangements and surprising turns at every listen...
Editorial review
Minnesotans the Vestals bring an impressively vast array of influences to bear upon their eponymous debut of 2004, baffling any observer as to whether they may qualify as post-punk, post-alternative, post-new wave, or just plain post-everything! Led by eager-to-compete brothers Jeremy and Ben Gordon, the album generally alternates between two quite varied but still rather discernible strategies, and the fact that neither one is the exclusive specialty of any one brother is perhaps the most astonishing thing about them. On the one hand, songs like "Telescope," "Childhood Timeouts," and the engaging "Forever, It's True" combine dreamy strums and laid-back rhythms with an ever-so-creepy haunting feeling -- then tops it all with power pop-suited vocals that would do both Cheap Trick and Big Star proud. On the other hand, jaunty tracks like "Three Girls Ago," "Another Way to Kill Me," and "Face the Ground" dive headlong into the sort of bouncy, vocal harmony-rich, neo-psychedelia that fans of Jellyfish or Ben Folds will jump to embrace. Slicing the album in half, "Before the Color Dries" uses lush backing string arrangements for an effect that most would describe as "Eleanor Rigby"-lite, and ending the proceedings, the acoustic lullaby "Someday" strikes a tenuous balance between excessive cheese and heartfelt beauty. In the end, the overarching influence of the Beatles (also splattered all over the memorable "Too Late to Say Goodbye") is impossible to ignore here. Regardless, the Vestals' thoroughly modern flavor allows them to bring an undeniably personal (and wonderfully quirky) voice to these very familiar formulas, making for a vastly enjoyable debut. ~ Ed Rivadavia, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Remember when music was made by people who played instruments, could sing like angels and wrote the kind of classic pop gemgallygows s that stuck in your head all day? Well, Minneapolis' four prodigal sons, the Vestals do. Their self-titled masterpiece is a sublime slice of melodic perfection that has earned praise from esteemed publications including Amplifier, Ink 19 and a recent Rollingstone.com review that said of the music of the Vestals: "...speaking of harmonies, brothers Ben and Jeremy Gordon's voices are magnet and steel..."
Some background:
Raised in a musically nurturing household, brothers Ben and Jeremy Gordon developed their songwriting skills at ripe young ages. This soon became a catalytic source of competition and they feverishly developed their individual styles, but both were vindicated by separately making the finalist round at the 2000 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
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