- TRACK LIST:
- [01] Girls
- [02] Big Jet
- [03] 20 Fingers 20 Toes (Listen)
- [04] Inspector Pharao Pt.1 Theme
- [05] Back Porch
- [06] Under The Umbrella
- [07] Inspector Pharao Pt.2 The Fight and The Lover
- [08] I Was a Teenage Soldier
- [09] Phone Booth
- [10] Demonstrator
- [11] Inspector Pharao Pt.3 Sunset at The Ranch
Goodnight Monsters
"The Brain That Wouldn't Die " CD
BONE-0032
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Reviews:
review from AMG by Tim Sendra
Listening to Finland's Goodnight Monsters is like eating cotton candy with a root beer float chaser. Pure sugar rush from start to finish.
Their debut album The Brain That Wouldn't Die is loaded with lightweight, hooky tunes that don't have a single ounce of seriousness or reality to be found anywhere. If you are looking for either of those things, you'll probably want to break something after hearing the record. Don't stress though, you can find seriousness and reality pretty much anywhere you turn these days. Finding a group who would rather be goofy (with killer melodies, no less) is much more difficult. Finding a group who can pull off being silly without being stupid, child-like without being childish, that is harder still.
These guys pull it off three ways: memorable and almost painfully melodic tunes, the occasional mid-tempo ballad that comes close to having some kind of content ("Back Porch", "Big Jet"), surprises like the 9 minute long rocker "Demonstrator" which shows the band could play for real if they wanted to. At their best Goodnight Monsters capture the spirit of 1986 as typified by the BMX Bandits, have the feel of 1968 bubblegum groups like the 1910 Fruitgum Orchestra and bop with timelessly youthful simplicity of Jonathan Richman. A fine debut from a band you have to hope never grows up.
review from tangents UK:
Meanwhile, over the Baltic in Finland. there sit a dynamic duo called Goodnight Monsters with the fruits of their labours clutched tremulously in their hands in the form of their The Brain That Wouldn't Die album (on Bone Voyage records). Now album opener 'Girl' is fundamentally, and unashamedly, The Association's 'Windy' appropriated and twisted to their own tweepop needs. Needless to say it pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the album, whish is all softpop inspired no-fi Indiepop with a lounge psych undertow that is both peppered with reference points moored in Pop's past and utterly contemporary all at once.
It reminds of when Groovy Little Numbers did 'Windy' on their sole 53rd and 3rd single; a record that, incidentally, introduced me to the delights of The Association and the genius of Jim Lambie to the world. I keep thinking of when his Zobop floor installation was at the Tate St Ives, and of how amazing it would be if it were there right now alongside the glorious Elsworth Kelly exhibit.
But I digress. Back to Goodnight Monsters: with their edifyingly eclectic mix of sounds and peculiar angles, they strike the pose of the smart outsiders at the school dance, all awkwardly knowing and tremulously anticipatory of the lives yet to be led. Theirs is a world of hope, wonder and excitement. You would do well to join them in it.