Although New York's Big City specialise in great Pop Rock, there is a wonderful looseness to what they do. This mini album emphasises that. A too Rock for Power Pop, too Power Pop for Rock sort of vibe persists.
This is personified on Forget Her Name which is essentially great Guitar Pop, but the Sax takes it down a more Classic Route despite the lazy slacker vocal. It works really well. The title track instrumentally even mirrors The Faces, but the vocal is very Noo Yawk.
The centrepiece is two songs in one, a type of A Side and B Side in one song. Superlove is Classic Rock with its The Boys Are Back In Town rhythm and it does feel a little Thin Lizzy. Lucky Catch is wall to wall UK Glam Rock and all the better for it.
Rock Star is Acoustic with a falsetto vocal edging towards More Than Words territory, that doesn't quite work for me, but others may like the slow down. Tell Me is great Power Pop, akin to the new wave of the genre that has broken through over the past year or so adding an edge to the genre.
That leaves time for the closer and Dear Night brings everything that's gone before together. Great Sax, a killer riff and dashes of ace Organ. Part Indie Rock, part Guitar Pop and a majority Classic Rock with its killer Guitar solo. It rounds off a great feel good album.
You can listen to and buy the album here.
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