Not only have I already introduced you to
Yazoo Beach (over a decade ago in fact), I've also enlightened and entertained you with phenomenal music from guitarist
Scott Coopwood's prior two bands,
The Square Root of Now and
Perfect Strangers.
Binge was Yazoo's somewhat belated follow-up to their inviting 1988 debut,
The Solace and the Blaze, and is demonstrably more mature. Playing it right down the middle, a la fellow deep south contemporaries Dreams So Real and the Windbreakers, this is guitar pop of the collegiate, "new south" variety offering a bevy of pretty persuasions. Generally, the R.E.M,-isms are on the downlow, but glints are lovingly apparent on "By the Hand" and "Shades of Solitude," amidst other scattered offerings.
Binge's acoustic traipses, specifically "Islands" and "Heaven Coming Down," fall loosely between the confines of The Moody Blues and
Workbook-era Bob Mould, albeit not as engrossing. Though said to be available on CD, I was only fortunate enough to happen upon a cassette, which is where his rip is derived from.
01. Last Until Tomorrow
02. By the Hand
03. So Much is Love
04. Caroline
05. Heart So Heavy
06. Heaven Coming Down
07. Shades of Solitude
08. Wooden Horse
09. Piece of Her Mind
10. World Inside Your Heart
11. Islands
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