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Engine 88 – Snowman (Caroline)
San Francisco’s Engine 88’s follow up to their critically acclaimed debut album “Clean Your Room” is an exciting slab of strictly off-centre power pop. Askew lyrics abound – the opener “Ballerina” and the single “Seconal” wander into the territory once held dear by the Pixies before they lost the plot, but Engine 88 are no copycats. Next single “Manclub” sees to that. It sounds like nothing else, a cross-dressing, anti-fridge song that’ll leave you with a smile on your face and your finger on the repeat button.
Production, courtesy of Tim O’Heir, is spot on throughout, and if the band isn’t careful they’re going to have a huge hit on their hands. A “Doolittle” for the ‘90s, perhaps?
LB (1997)
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