Home - Deep Blue Something (1995)

“ Sounding like a final nail in the coffin of the grunge revolution, Deep Blue Something's major-label debut is a study in easy melodic upliftment. Rather than overpowering the listener, the songs ride waves of jangly, alterna-rock guitars and quaint, positive sentiments, settling themselves in the deep recesses of the mind, like nuggets of caramel still stuck between one's teeth long after the candy has been digested. And just like the caramel, songs like the hit single "Breakfast At Tiffany's" remain sweet long after all other flavour has been lost.
Though bassist/vocalist Todd Pipes claims that "Kiss was the reason [he] started playing rock", the roots of this north Texas quartet are indisputably ground inthe British and Amer-indie guitar pop of the '80s. The lilting instrumental opener, "Gammar Gerten's Needle", has late-period Cure written all over it; "Halo" exists in the uncommon ground once occupied by The Fixx and OMD, but with an ever-present, effervescent acoustic guitar hushing the gloom away; and "Done" harkens back to the simple, bass-driven cerebralism of Wire Train. Each is built on a proven pop aesthetic that, given the mid-'90s musical climate, is quite singular.
In its lyrical intelligence HOME also finds kinship with such current alterno-popsters as Michael Penn and Live. Invoking figures like modernist painter Vassily Kandinsky andprominent 20th Century works like the Blake Edwards film BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S in enlightened boy-girl tales, Deep Blue Something prove that the same ol' song topics need not result in the same ol' songs.” – Album Review on Amazon.com

Tracklist:
01. Gammer Gerten's Needle
02. Breakfast At Tiffany's
03. Hale
04. Josey
05. A Water Prayer
06. Done
07. Song To Make Love To
08. The Kandinsky Prince
09. Home
10. Red Light
11. I Can Wait
12. Wouldn't Change A Thing

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