SPLURGE “The Cure For The Cure”

2007（POPBOOMERANG） ￥2,000(taxin)

オーストラリアをベースに活動する4人組ポップ/フォークロックバンドSplurgeのリリースされたばかりの最新作"The Cure For The Cure"（from POPBOOMERANG）！オーストラリアのバンドらしくイギリス的なメロディーとアメリカンロックサウンドがほどよく融合するポップ感覚を持っており、PulpやDodgy、Oasis、Travisなどと比較されるのもなるほどよくわかる。どことなく80’Sのポップスが持っていた大げさなキャッチーさもルーツのひとつとして感じられるが、彼らのフィルターを通すとまるで嫌味のない柔らかな曲で吐き出されるようだ。

Track Lisiting: （全曲試聴）
1 When I Go To Sleep
2 Crystalline
3 She's Not The One
4 I Don't Feel It
5 Beautiful
6 Too Much Is Not Enough
7 Get Up And Watch TV
8 Numb
9 Hey Children
10 Is That You?
11 The Cure For The Cure

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BIOGRAPHY
Splurge is to quote MOJO magazine "a song-packing Melbourne four-piece" - although, having spent three years making a record, we are not sure how many pieces we have left.

What is known, however, is that Splurge has previously recorded two albums - 1998's "Splurge" and 2002's "Heavy Weather" and will soon release a new album "Cure For The Cure". During the recording, quite a few people were born and some people died; others just got lost.

We are pretty sure that Splurge plays songs written by Greg Williams and propelled by drummer Owen Smythe. On the new record Greg Arnold sometimes plays bass... for a while Dallas Rayner did... Neville Hill played guitar most of the time, but what he did the rest of time you couldn't really call music... James Black does lots of things and we are not at all sure how he does them... when we got tired of hearing two Gregs singing we gave James Macdonald a turn...

Another thing is certain: the identity of this new record was moulded in a makeshift studio set up inside a log cabin just outside Hall's Gap (read The Cabin and The Cure blog…); then Owen went and lived in the UK for two years; meanwhile, lots more scary guitar noises were made up in the cabin; and we remember many long afternoons singing at Greg's house and James' house, and many late nights hunched over laptops.

When we had finished Heavy Weather, most people thought it was a more reflective and melodic album than the hook-laden, guitar-driven pop of our debut... With The Cure For The Cure we wanted to make a record that came from some other place.