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Wild Pendulum

Current price: $16.99
Wild Pendulum
Wild Pendulum

Barnes and Noble

Wild Pendulum

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Since the band started in 1987, have always been reliable. Every record has delivered exactly what people needed from them: lovely guitar pop songs done with a light touch, deep emotional feelings, and melodies as rich and warm as a late-autumn heat wave. Since their original run ended in the '90s, they've come back regularly to remind people that they are just about the best guitar pop band still going, with a new album roughly every five years or so. Arriving in 2016, finds the band in fine form, expectedly. It also finds them doing a bit of sonic experimentation, unexpectedly. With former mastermind on board providing the kind of "sonic scenery" he added to many recent albums and producer capturing fuller arrangements than usually heard on albums, it's the most sonically interesting album of their long career. The samples, horns, 's trademark loops, and extra sounds that creep around the edges of the mix do nothing to detract from the still brilliant songs they continue to write; in fact, quite the opposite. There are lots of tracks here that stand with the best work they've done. Ballads like "What's Inside the Box?" and "I Want to Capture Your Heart" have all the heartbreaking grandeur of their early classics, and it certainly helps that 's vocals remain as resonant and true as ever. The more uptempo songs have all the bounce and zest of their predecessors; there are tracks that reach dramatic heights the band has rarely attempted to scale (the epic-sounding "Autumn," for one); and the band even takes an adventurous step out onto the dancefloor on "All Night." They truly haven't lost a step over the years and with and ' help may have made their most satisfying record since their debut, , way back in 1990. It may be even more satisfying and pleasurable given the life experience that has gone into the lyrics and the knowledge that most bands who have been at it this long had surely lost the plot long before they reached this point in their existence. makes a strong case that may never lose the plot. It's also quite likely the best sophisticated guitar pop album anyone is likely to hear in 2016, made either by whippersnappers or old-timers. ~ Tim Sendra

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