The Thrills

Those in love with the Thrills' first lp may long for their sun-kissed West Coast adoration. These songs are mature pocket-symphonies and they're still quite catchy, but if you felt the good vibrations of the first album, you might miss the monkeying around. Remember how you felt after first hearing Supergrass' second album?

Last year the Thrills' So Much For The City replicated the sunshine pop of early-Seventies
Beach Boys so well and with so many hooks that no one cared that City was recorded by
five Irish guys living in this century. On the sequel, the Dublin quintet repeats the
widescreen arrangements of its debut with fewer first-rate tunes, and its fakeness comes
to the fore. When the melodies click, so does their sonic flashback. "Whatever... More >