The Smiles and Frowns - Mechanical Songs/The Echoes of Time

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 30 Apr, 2009.

The Great Pop Supplement have gone snooker loopy with their packaging this week, there's that amazing thing with the leaves cut out of it and now the funny groovy bendy die-cut sleeve on this 7" by The Smiles and Frowns. 'Mechanical Songs' is like The Zombies playing lo-fi slowcore pop and it sounds lovely.. They've got that heady and slightly disorientating 60s sound down to a tee. 'The Echoes of Time' is more upbeat, beginning in a skeletal vocal and guitar arrangement before bringing in the rhythm and strings all gorgeous and ornate like. There's something of Ray Davies in the vocals for that one. A lovely all-round package.

Beautiful debut 45 from u.s duo who offer up the very lo-fi, cyclical, almost otherworldly sounding "mechanical songs" backed with the fabulous "echoes of time". 2 irritatingly annoying tunes that stay with ya long after each has ended. think elements of galaxie 500, low, young marble giants, merged with the quieter side to the left banke or perhaps the west coast pop art experimental band. "60s psi-fi pop music" as has been recently described?! .... the packaging is something else, amazing die cut op-art sleeve with matching label art finished off on tasty white vinyl......

4...according to malévola.

I love The Smiles and Frowns..es un disco perfecto! is a perfect soundtrack of my dreams..my favorite song is "when the time should come"

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