Chicago's Push Puppets are back with their fourth album. The third made our Best Albums Of 2022, you can read the review of Allegory Grey here. It is great to have them back and as you might expect, Tethered Together is jam packed with Pop Rock goodness.
The stand out here is the arrangements. Wonderfully mellow songs with far more complex arrangements than you might expect. Vocally, there is still that Finn and Tilbrook vibe, the latter on the slower numbers, the latter on the jauntier songs.
The string quartet arrangements are superb and light up songs such as Probably, a song built on an ace Piano Pop Riff. All Together On 3 still sounds amazing, a little Caper Clowns with another sterling arrangement.
Shake It Like You Mean It is almost Calypso in feel. With the majority of the album being superbly strings and keyboard led, it is also nice to hear the stripped down Acoustic arrangement on Hearts Are Fragile.
Similar is a great opener, pacy and more in your face and grabs your interest in the smoothness that you are about to hear. Launching A Satellite is a glorious song underling how lyrically adept the album is and adding a fine solo. Moody and magnificent.
There is a mellow feel to proceedings, but don't confuse that with boring. The strength here is in the songs and the arrangements. Beautifully sung, there is too much in these songs to just wash over you. Great Pop Rock is not easy to find. You will find it here.
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