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Had a root through the LPs I've got stuffed away in the attic and came across Honey Bee by Moose. Somebody out there tell me that they remember Moose. They were lumped in with all the terribly dull shoegazers around '91 (they might actually have been the first group to be termed as such). I've got a vague recollection of them playing a track called Suzanne on Rapido. It had all the hallmarks of shoegazing, but with the important and innovative addition of a tune.
Anyhow, something odd happened between that single and the first album, XYZ, and they started writing countrified, summery pop songs. I replaced my vinyl copy of that with the CD a while back, but I've not listened to the second album, Honey Bee, in years. Partly because XYZ, though good, isn't brilliant. And though I remember being in love with Honey Bee, I figured that maybe I was letting a bit of nostalgia creep in.
But no. It's still fucking aces. Breezy, warm and upbeat, with a lazy afternoon vibe running through. Nary a duff track on it. The two reviews here put it well and save me the bother. It's a real shame that Kessler's prediction that they'd have "a career of influential underground failure a la Felt" proved to be accurate. Well, sort of - Felt get the occasional nod from writers and other musicians, and had the majority of their back catalogue rereleased last year. Moose, on the other hand, have been neatly wiped from history.
And now I need to track down a CD copy of this, and their final two (which I'm not really looking forwards to, Amazon having a copy of this one for the princely sum of $40). |
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