:o zHuHJ # FT `y3 ~ 专辑名称：Simple Machinery
+r4US or 歌手姓名：Bears
#^!oP$>1 唱片公司：Unsigned
lQi2ym? 发行日期：2008年09月02日
e/#4)@] 专辑流派：Indie/Pop
)ck x&e 推荐指数：4星
[RC|W%<Z> lS XhHy 专辑介绍：
2r PKZ| 2/B(T5PY@ Bears get simpler and sweeter on their sophomore release, Simple Machinery. After making a splash with their 2006 self-titled debut, Charlie McArthur & Craig Ramsey kept writing, putting out Shortest Day of the Year EP last year, and now Simple Machinery. The Ohio natives took a bit of a darker turn on the wintery Shortest Day, but Machinery was built for the summer.
\&ERSk2 P63z8 ^y Much of Simple Machinery draws on the bright, sweet sounds of sixties pop, like the choral “Please Don’t” and flowing “Another Tiger Romance” that lead the record off. The melodic sounds of such tracks as “Wait and See” and “So Go” do play a bit simple, but still charm. However, sometimes the harmony does go a bit overboard, like with “Since I Met You” and “Never Again”, and the penultimate “Everything I Need” is just an uninteresting organ-choral track. But then there’s twinkle-nice “Letting It Go”, and the catchy little ditty & strum, “Subtle Way”, to bring back the sunshine.
5XFhjVmEL n9cWvy&f Simple isn’t all sweetness and light, and, in many ways, Bears are better when they add a little sadness into the mix. Early flowing strum “Dolphins” benefits from a pinch of wistfulness, while the touch of grey to the sixties-pop procession “What Makes Me Happy” gives it some needed depth. And at the end, sandwiched around Simple’s weakest track, are the record’s two best: “Your Help” and “Our Time”. “Help” is wise in its wisdom, while “Time” is some pressing alt-country indie-pop.
I?bL4u$\ q_ cqjly< In fact, “Our Time” is so good, once can’t help but wish there was more of it on Simple Machinery. But that’s another record, more of an autumnal breeze than Simple’s summer sun. Bears may be godless killing machines and the greatest threat facing America (according to Stephen Colbert), but they’re still winning hearts and minds.
asPD>j c 4J94iI>S.l 曲目列表：
>4LX!^V" c7 wza/r> 01. Please Don't
4zJ9bF 4 02. Another Tiger Romance
5jx{O${u 03. Dolphins
% fA0XRM 04. Wait and See
^ ]E| >~\ 05. So Go
X903;&Cim 06. What Makes Me Happy
Z# 7HuAF{] 07. Letting It Go
mc!3FJ 08. Since I Met You
gj6"U {D 09. Subtle Way
-W+dsZ Sv8 10. Never Again
Srol0D I 11. Your Help
0A5xG& 12. Everything I Need
Nm OQ7T 13. Our Time
