Today I deliver an album entitled,
Good Tidings, and it isn't even Christmas.
Yo's second and third albums (
Charm World, Once in a Blue Moon) seemed to over fairly well with you a few years back, so how about one final go-around, this time highlighting their debut? Decidedly on the collegiate tip, this Cali-based contingent struck me as the types who were born for left-of-the-dial notoriety, and for better of worse that might have been the extent of their appeal. I've highlighted
Bruce Rayburn's distinctive timbre in the past, and it's no less notable here, with the man on the mic sporting a panache combining Guadalcanal Diary's Murray Attaway, Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes) and just as coincidentally, a twinge of Morrissey. Ten songs in almost twice as many minutes, but there's only a couple of items here that would qualify as punk adjacent, the terrifically driving and muscular "Pot O' Gold" and "Living Lie."
01. Train of No Return
02. Pot O' Gold
03. White Eyes
04. Buildings
05. The Plough
06. Something
07. Black Forest
08. Living Lie
09. Good Tidings
10. Knives
1 comment:
They put out some great records and Rayburn's other bands were good too. I was lucky to see YO in SF one time.
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