Wrinkles offer up their second album and it is suitably wonderful. The external humour of the band has a reverse side in their material and this originality and depth is a joy. However, this ability to be so many things means that the one listen brigade are never going to get it.
The Montana five piece are also not helped by the Hipster Reviews that they get. The obscure comparisons in these reviews don't necessarily help the band, they smack of something intended to make the reviewer look arty and worldly, when really they are good at searching google.
What Wrinkles do have is one of the great front men in Jon Cardiello, He really can be anything that you want him to be. He slips between Bryan Ferry, David Byrne, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave and Scott Walker, but is just at home in something Poptastic.
The band's adaptability means that they can flit between Indie, Art Rock and even Prog with ease. There's even seemingly a contrariness within. For instance, the opener Afternoon is suitably brooding, but why open that when the following, Thunderstorm is so damn accessible?
This versatility and adaptability should be shouted and celebrated from the rooftops, particularly in these days when it seems to need nine people to write a three minute song. Total Control has a King Crimson feel, yet compare that to Black Jeans, which is pure Pulp or Divine Comedy.
There is so much ability and creativity contained here, that belies the band's relative youth, that Other Days demands that you give it the time needed to get it. The album will take repeated listens, but you owe it to yourself to give it that. One word sums up the album and that word is Stunning!
You can listen to and buy the album here.
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