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This Soft Life
Let me be completely honest with you for just a moment (not to imply that I lie to you under normal circumstances). I listen to these CDs over and over again before I sit down to write my little reviews. I rarely ever, no matter how much I liked something, listen to it after the review is completed. Scout, however, seems like it might be an exception. I foresee a bright future ahead for me and this disc. I look forward to us growing old together. Singer Ashen Keilyns early influences include The Replacements and The Pixies. Her band follows in the tradition of these alt-rock pioneers with solid songs and genuine delivery. Her voice is the combination of Kim Deals breathiness and Joan Jetts attitude. She has everything that I like in a female vocalist, and none of the stuff I dont. This Soft Life is finely produced, melodic indie-rock, recorded in the bands basement. The album is bookended by Unlimited Weekends and Fly on the Window, which are both somber yet adventurous. The songs that fill the middle are generally more upbeat and catchy. My favorites are Here Come the Waterworks, Heres The Thing, and a version of Just between You and Me that will have you believing it was Scouts song in the first place. Think of Scout as a more sophisticated Breeders, only better. Holy shit, I cant believe I said that (Forgive me, Kim!). But its true. Ill be listening to This Soft Life long after Ive forgotten Title TK. I strongly recommend this one.
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