Audio CD review:
Madder Rose, Mary Lorson - Hello June Fool

Madder Rose, Mary Lorson - Hello June Fool

Band: Madder Rose, Mary Lorson Title: Hello June Fool Rating: Release Date: 10 August, 1999 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Feels Like Summer 2: Overflow 3: Hotel 4: Fade 5: Goodbye June Fool 6: Something 7: You Remember 8: Should Have Known 9: Talking To Myself 10: Train 11: Dark Rain

Customer Reviews screamingpig They were way ahead of their time. The music of Madder Rose is as good as any of thier contempories. The music is as fresh today as when it was released. Good candy! Such is the music of Madder Rose. An hour of high school petting and then going home. With incredible self-restraint, this New York quartet creates richly textured songs with a controlled aggression lying just below the surface. The tension this creates is both tremendous and unnerving. As Mary Lorson's honey dulcet voice floats dreamily over Billy Cote's atmospheric melodies backed by a fuzzed-out yet controlled guitar, you expect that at any minute the cage door will open and the pent-up guitar will break into a ravenous frenzy. . . but it never does. The gentle, relaxed melodies are original and inviting while the music is a mixture of playful psychedelia and ethereal simplicity with Cote's distorted guitar pacing around the edges like a hungry animal. With the exception of one song written exclusively by Lorson (with an annoyingly repetitive chorus), the songwriting on their latest release, Hello June Fool, is strong throughout. "Feels Like Summer" certainly does, transporting the listener to a lazy summer afternoon, laying in the sun-speckled shade of a tree, the temperature just right. "Overflow" has a subdued funk feel and tastefully placed wah-wah guitar that tugs at you, seductively promising release that never comes. "Hotel" is an ironic story of longing ("he took his life when he wanted to take yours") and "Train" has an incredible, and incredibly complicated, drum part that indeed sounds like a train. In "Goodbye June Fool", Lorson's rich voice contains just the right mixture of playfulness and sorrow to capture the feeling of paradise lost present in this song. The near-pop melodies and rich, textured feel of this music should appeal instantly to fans of The Breeders, The Choir, or Psychedelic Furs. However, anyone wanting to hear well-crafted music that appeals to both the heart and mind would do well to check out this latest release by Madder Rose, a band that knows who it is and where it is going. Hello Madder Rose The others being O. It's easily one of the ten best records of the nineties. k computer, odelay, californication, live through this, homework etc What's not to like, the melodies or singer Mary Lorson's voice ? In my humble opinion all songs are highlights with Goodbye June fool being the best. . You can see a complete list of all Madder Rose, Mary Lorson discography, or go back to the Madder Rose, Mary Lorson tabs