Album review: Too Strange for Avery
Blame Ringo – Too Strange for Avery
Blame Ringo are an unusual band; they’re a band who tell the most genius tales through the lyrics, a band on an eternal mission; to blame Ringo ..for everything, a band behind some of the most brilliant music videos on the internet, a band who create recognizable folk pop, and one of the bands responsible for my love for Australian music!
Ever since debut album ‘Lucky Number 9’ was released in 2009, the band has been on a creative adventure, and put behind them several tour and music videos, which resulted in a quite busy 2009 and 2010.
The first single ‘Garble Arch: A day in the life of Abbey Road’ reached amazingly almost half a million plays on YouTube, the success was followed by several tours, including The Laundromat Tour of 2009! (10 laundromats, 3 hotels, 7 towns, 2 radio stations, 85 songs in 3 days.)
2010 was filled with more tours and the music videos for ‘At the In-between’ (World Championship Trampoline Wrestling – 80 Moves in 3 mins) and ‘In a Hurricane’ (a car race between a zebra and a lion) was created.
Both taken from the bands second album “Too Strange for Avery”, released in late 2010.
The band was also behind the soundtrack of the ad to Dreamworld Holiday.
“Too Strange for Avery” is classical alternative folk pop/rock album.
The opening track “The Sunshine Song” is a sunshine song (a word that can sun up half of the songs on the album). It’s a upbeat and at the same time fuzzy track, consisting of a guitar driven theme that suit the carefully and fuzzy vocals perfectly.
“One Way Driver” is one of the gems on the album. The low fi fuzzy and playful vocals with the diverse instrumentation collaboration make this to song you can listen to alone in the car, without feeling alone.
Some of the songs that reminds of the first album are “The Girl Who Likes Me” and “The Strange Effect”, both 60’s folk rock inspired. While “In a Hurricane” and “At the In-Between” take care of the typical upbeat summer tunes on the album.
“Midnight to Twilight” is what you hear if Simon and Garfunkel should do a comeback with Cat Stevens and The Byrds. Enough said.
