You'd have to be living in cave not to have heard Novocaine For The Soul.
Not only have I never heard that song but I've never heard of the band. But that's a nice song. Something Beatly after about 2 minutes with the slurpy cello's, Strawberry Fields came to mind, like they'd sampled that particular instrument. It didn't seem to have the differing time signatures of SFF though, or the same (what felt like) mesmerising originality and creation of art rock set to a catchy tune.
But yeah, a nice catchy song. I liked it.
Sorry
@southamptonblue a lot of the album just didn't appeal to me.
I don't know a bit touchy feely, a bit self indulgent, who knows why some things don't appeal, it's very hard to try to explain these things.
I like Neil Young's touchy feely stuff for example. Neil wrote "On The Beach" which is of course touchy but in a more desperate anxiety ridden fashion, a very artistic conveyance of almost depression at the state of things he saw around him. "You're all just pissin in the wind, you don't know it, but you are"
I didn't "feel" the same sense of whatever it is (human emotion) from this, more light hearted lyrically. Young girls may like it :)
Track 4 Beautiful Freak has a nice vibe, I like the (what sounds like) a Fender Rhodes piano in the opening bars with those whimsical chords. Simple chords but airy. And it's airiness (for want of a better word) continues to the chorus/bridge where it's tonality (key of C Major) arrives.
Before that we're playing around with chords from C Major but not playing the actual home chord. That give's it the whimsical feel, your brain is waiting for it to land on C. It even sounds at times before that a bit nursey rhyme-ish.
I messed about with the chords and used some 7th/9th chords here and there on my keyboard. Made it sound more interesting to me. But I guess the simple approach worked for them.
6/10
