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Is, Are, Was, Were
Is, Are, Was, Were
The Peaces / CD / 2007
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Artist
The Peaces
Format
CD
Genre
Rock
Label Name
Cherry Bomb
Release Date
2007 05 22
Song List
1: Don't Take It for Granted (4:18)
2: Endless Line (3:11)
3: Oasis (2:50)
4: She Stands So Close (3:56)
5: Natalie Would (2:37)
6: Existential Me (4:05)
7: Portrait in Vanity (3:11)
8: Old Anxiety (3:57)
9: Telephone's Ringing in My Ear (2:55)
10: Nobody Cares (3:16)
11: Dahlia (3:28)
12: Sunny Day (Out of My Head and into My Heart) (3:23)
13: Something Wrong Could Be Right (4:06)
14: From Each Other's Eyes (2:41)
Style.Categories
Indie Pop, Pop/Rock, Power Pop
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The most remarkable aspect of
the Peaces
' debut album is the young trio's easy-as-breathing three-part harmony, which is straight out of the '60s/'70s playbook of folks like
the Hollies
,
the Left Banke
,
America
and
the Raspberries
. The low-key, pleasantly catchy,
soft pop
tunes are mostly by
Paul Stingo
and
Brian Halverson
, working separately; neither is a particularly distinctive or original songwriter, and as a result,
Is, Are, Was, Were
primarily works as an unapologetic homage to the standard-bearers of a certain strain of relentlessly polite AM radio-friendly
pop
that hasn't been heard much in the musical mainstream since
Badfinger
broke up. The tunes are jangly, generally mid-tempo or below, and crisply if somewhat unimaginatively arranged to showcase their occasional resemblances to great
pop
hits of the past. The dramatic
"Dahlia,"
for example, strongly recalls
Eric Carmen
's fondness for over the top
ballads
.
Pop
underground fans with a yen for the glory days when
Wings
,
Electric Light Orchestra
,
Todd Rundgren
and the pre-
disco
Bee Gees
walked tall on the
pop
landscape will find
Is, Are, Was, Were
an acceptable simulacrum of
soft pop
circa 1973, but the blatant hero worship of
the Peaces
might turn off those who prefer bands who don't sound like the sum totals of their record collections. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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