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***The second offering from this crack band of Home and Meringue members (Eric Morrison of the former, Trey Conner and Chris Sturgeon of the latter) sounds like a classic rock record such as The Wall through a rootsier Prozac filter. Cannonballs and Silver Tongues is the result of many, many hours in Leels' Devils Isle Wet Lab home studio distinguished by heavily layered vocal passages, fleshed out with brass, wind, and strings, and balanced with spontaneous cartoon-like sparks-- as if Rumours has been recut by The Fugs. Leels' music is more overtly pop than you'd expect given their lineage; the album abounds with miniaturized heroic-rock passages and Paul McCartney-on-cough-syrup-with-ice hooks -Magnet |
