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Hotel Juicy Parlour

Sizer Barker

Sizer Barker - intriguingly strange yet reassuringly familiar. Rather like the music on Hotel Juicy Parlour, a debut album that has been gestating within Brown since that overcast day in the graveyard.

It's got the pop sensibility that seems inbred for Liverpudlians ever since the Four became Fab; heart-melting melodies and catchy choruses are all over it. But there's a darker undercurrent at work. Pretty songs implode into weird electronic fragments and sudden squalls of rock guitar, subterranean horns emerge from nowhere and then, just as swiftly, disappear. Found sounds drift in and out of the ether: distorted telephone messages from friends declaring that 'Something very strange is going on.' Indeed it is. Unusual instruments abound: a zither here, a harmonium there; recorders and accordions floating in and out of the mix. And what the hell is a shruti box?

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    playFling FataleSizer Barker
    playA Man And A WomanSizer Barker
    playHotel Juicy ParlourSizer Barker
    playDay By DaySizer Barker
    playWe Came Up FavoriteSizer Barker
    playBlue Ocean, Yellow SunSizer Barker
    playA Boy A JetSizer Barker
    playClimb AboardSizer Barker
    playSomething In The ParkSizer Barker
    playBright HopeSizer Barker
    playTransmission LandSizer Barker
    playThe Skeleton DudeSizer Barker
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