Be What You Want is a striking debut for Sydney, Australia's the Love-Tones, a trio led by singer/songwriter Matt Tow, that manages to keep its balance on that difficult path between the past and the present. Tow is clearly a major fan of '60s U.K. pop from Revolver-era Beatles to the Move in their early days to the gossamer pop of the Zombies to David Bowie's pre-stardom mod phase (the anthemic, powerful opener "The Sound and the Fury" would have been a killer follow-up to Bowie's 1966 single "Can't Help Thinking About Me"), but unlike a lot of his contemporaries, Tow knows the difference between homage and thievery. Think Neil Finn or Allen Clapp, not Oasis. Songs like the dreamy /p>
eo-psychedelia of "Guiding Star" or the passionate title track are mature, literate pop with thoughtful, non-clichéd lyrics and sturdily memorable hooks. Be What You Want is a small, intimate record that proves that it's no longer enough to simply churn out third-rate Todd Rundgren and Badfinger imitations in the pop underground.
You Am I is one of my favorite bands with some great songwriting and an amazing mix of Kinks, Stones, Beatles, and Who influences. So I was quite pleasantly surprised when some random Australian added me as a MySpace friend cause he saw they were one of my influences. He then recommended The Lovetones to me. The Lovetones are another example of a band that should be huge over here if we had any...
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You Am I is one of my favorite bands with some great songwriting and an amazing mix of Kinks, Stones, Beatles, and Who influences. So I was quite pleasantly surprised when some random Australian added me as a MySpace friend cause he saw they were one of my influences. He then recommended The Lovetones to me. The Lovetones are another example of a band that should be huge over here if we had any...
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| 1 The Sound and the Fury |
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| 2 Give It All I Can |
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| 3 What Am I to Do |
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| 4 Something Good |
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| 5 Be What You Want |
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| 6 Drink the Night (My Love) |
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| 7 Guiding Star |
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| 8 The One and Only |
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| 9 It's Always Been This Way |
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| 10 Fairweather |
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