![]() Music is original, not conforming to contemporary mainstream tastes. Posted by The Pin Up Girls 11:13 PM 26 comments There's info about them at and hopefully your roommate won't put the CD in seclusion. Ha! Of course, I'm paying the price now because "Taste Test: Expanded Menu" has me addicted. To think that me roommate hid this from me so he can enjoy it by himself without letting anybody borrow it. The music is pleasant enough, moving fast like a rabbit hopping through the backwoods. Is there a term yet for this fetish? The Ups must be smoking some pretty toxic stuff to write twisted, sick lyrics like that yet it's all poppy and your parents can drink tea to it without getting too disturbed. Back to extraterrestrial probes then: "Spacegrrl Superb" is about being abducted and played with by aliens. Two chicks and one lad, Mondo Castro, trade off on the vocals, sometimes harmonizing to hypnotic effect (theĪforementioned "Pictures"). ![]() A string section is not what I normally hear on indie releases, and I thought the entire album was going to be similarly in the chamber-pop vein. "Caress" is a deathbed ballad, creepy and sexy at the same time. Singing is charming throughout, and styles vary. The riffs sparkle and take on dreamy notes as on "Pictures." A Google search explained that the Ups are from the Philippines, and that explains why I can't place the accents, which is refreshing. The Pin-Up Girls are all about guitar twang (not the country kind) and sorta shoegazer shimmer. Yeah, you're right - that's not your problem. The cover of the album itself, seductive girl of Asian origin, is an attention-getter, my guess is that she is modeled after one of the band's female singers, one Jeng Tan whose sweet-as-wine vocals on "Lullabye" makes me want to get married again even though I'm not divorced yet. Quite appropriate since the group is called the Pin-Up Girls although there's nothing nasty on this CD unless, of course, you're offended by extraterrestrial probes. I reckon all of us have peculiar abilities, and his talent for concealing his top discoveries is admirable yet completely obnoxious.Īnd so it is I found this unknown disc under a pile of girlie mags. He has this uncanny knack for hiding the best records from me.
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