Brisbane Trio Fingerless offer up a fine Pop Rock album. Covering a fair bit of music from Oz, I'm more used to hearing Guitar Pop or something much noisier. Repeater does seem an outlier, with its 70s tints. The music here continues to surprise here.
The stunning Guitar solo on Yes Today for instance that is Classic Rock excellence, it is a surprise and a wonderful listen. It is very different to the Piano led Charlie with its sparser arrangement and melancholic, slightly breathy, vocal.
You will, of course, have heard Portfolio on a recent Listening To This Week Playlist and it is one of the songs of the year and sounds as great as it did. More Guitar Pop than what surrounds it, the vocal harmonies and raiding of the instrument cupboard shine.
Cry A Little goes all early 60s, Roy Orbison like, yet The Same Stream gets a little more Eric Stewart 10CC, uncannily so. Grotesque is even a little Travis. More To Come mixes Brit Pop with something that could have been wrote by Billy Kinsley for Liverpool Express.
People decry some of the 70s Pop Rock, I have no idea why. This album revises that joy. Beautifully performed, arranged and produced with a good deal of variety. Melodic great choruses ring out on a splendid listen.
You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on CD and as a download.
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