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The Postmarks - The Postmarks
I was at first a little thrown reading the press release for The Postmarks self titled debut album having just listened to the album for the third time. Reading through the three band members names I was baffled, Tim Yehezkely, Jon Wilkins and Christopher Moll were the names. Fine, but where is the female singer who graces every song on this delightful album?
God knows how, but it seems that the beautiful female vocal is in actual fact the product of the first name on that list, Tim. No Tim isn’t a bloke with a really feminine singing voice, but a beautiful brunette girl, who is rather strangely called Tim.
With that mystery over with I felt far more comfortable reviewing this album, it seems I had been listening to the right CD and my press sheet does contain the right details. Always a good starting point when reviewing I’ve found.
The Postmarks are an American band, but the album for me has more of a European feel to it, shifting gracefully between French café lounge pop with a romantic take on love and a more Scandinavian style lo-fi that glows with a wistfulness of Summer being replaced by Autumn.
I love this album and I’ve played it a hell of a lot since I got it. That said I don’t think it will be everybody’s cup of tea, I think some people will find the vocals a little repetitive in style and some of the songs a little lacking in pop sparkle. For me though that isn’t a problem, I don’t want that from every album I own and it sits very much in your collection of music that fits certain moods.
- The Postmarks
- The Postmarks (2008)
- Category: Album
- Label: Unfiltered Records
- Reviewed by: Kev
- Published on: 30 Jun 2008
- Photography by: Stefano Giovannini
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Add to favouritesFor me it echoes late summer throughout it, warm, fuzzy but with the threat that things aren’t always going to be as nice just around the corner, it’s the album that you put on while it chucks it down outside, with the wind and rain slapping against your window.
As far as album highlights go the single Goodbye opens things in twinkling, jaunty fashion, Know Which Way The Wind Blows has a chamber-pop feel to it and Let Go is a great little pop song. Elsewhere they aren’t quite scaling the same heights but You Drift Away, Weather The Weather, Summers Never Seem To Last and Looks Like Rain are all tracks that ooze beauty, tenderness and a fragility that you can’t help but embrace.
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