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Recommended by us on 22nd December 2011
...according to our Business Lady on Tue 20 Dec, 2011.
Velvet Davenport's experimental pop sounds have somehow passed me by but here they are with thier third release for Moon Glyph. Spear-headed by chief songwriter Parker Sprout, Velvet Davenport have produced their most ambitious and daring collection to date featuring more of everything! More players, more tunes, more more more. Anchored around Parker Sprout's hectic organ skills and classic psych-pop vocal delivery 'Warmy Girls' sounds much like classic Kinks/Beatles/Beach Boys yet stripped to it's bare essentials. 'Warmy Girls' is very much a lo-fi bedroom record, most likely recorded on a four track with little or no fuss involved. This inevitably makes for spontaneous and honest music rich in character and charm. For some reason it reminds me of Guided By Voices in it's successful delivery of pop music without all the unnecessary frills and inflated production budgets. They ain't as rocking as GBV though. More like GBV's studious little brother who doesn't drink for a living.
"Warmy Girls", Velvet Davenport’s third release with Moon Glyph, locates the band’s sonic architect and chief songwriter Parker Sprout displaying a rainbow of talents – talents only winked at on previous, briefer releases. Recorded in Sprout’s apartment studio last winter, the album became an effervescent brew of guitar-and-organ character sketches. Named after a feeling of affection and love, "Warmy Girls" is populated with men and women in a manner reminiscent of Ray Davies’ best Kink songs. The music itself is also well-populated - featuring more players per song than any of Velvet Davenport’s previous outings. The result: a collection of tunes Sprout has been preparing his listeners for since he began releasing music. Layered on a four-tracker, the sounds gambol and flit, trip and shimmer beneath a mélange of bright-eyed vocal harmonies. Each of the twelve songs is an illustration of the group’s mushrooming confidence in their craft – a warmy patchwork of reclaimed riffs, wily lyrics and a tangle of ideas that surprise on first listen and reward with every return.
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