Stand up for Your Mother

Stand up for Your Mother Artist: Young and Sexy
Label: Mint Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 773871005824
EAN: 0773871005824
ASIN: B0000630DM


Release Date: 2002-03-05

Stand up for Your Mother


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Tracks:

  1. Stand Up To Your Mother
  2. Chikubi
  3. The City You Live In Is Ugly
  4. Silent Film Star
  5. Lies, Ties And Battle Fields
  6. Better
  7. Scott
  8. Car Bought For A Son
  9. Last Year's Hopes
  10. Television
  11. Take What You Got
  12. Bobby Baby

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<I>Stand Up for Your Mother</I> is one of those charming, endearing records that sounds like it could have been made by the people next door, especially if the people next door are cute middle-class twentysomething urbanites with jobs they hate. Songwriter Paul Pittman's melodies are almost always instantly accessible, but it's the sour-and-sweet combination of his and singer Lucy Bain's vocals that gives the songs, and the band, a distinctive character. "The City You Live in Is Ugly" is a heavenly pop number that transcends its potshots at Vancouver (the band's hometown) eyesores to become a vivid capsule of a state of mind, and "Car Sold to a Boy" is a terrific bit of propulsive rock. Occasionally <I>Stand Up for Your Mother</I> slips on its own cleverness, and songs like "Television" and "Silent Film Star" fail to attain the sophisticated vulnerability of the terrific "Better" and the final, brief acoustic number "Bobby Baby." For pop fans looking for a new crush, though, Young and Sexy is made to order. <I>--Shawn Conner</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Cute, folky pop -- Takes about 4 listens to soak in..........2006-05-26

I wasn't into this when I got it 4 years ago or so. I shelved it for a while and recently got into it.

Wow this is a tremendous album! Perhaps it was the folky feel that I wasn't expecting upon first listen a few years back that didn't click. I wouldn't compare this to Elliot Smith because it's quite care free -- there's no self loathing going on here. To me they sound like contemporaries of some weird cross between Nick Drake, Yo La Tengo and ABBA. Perhaps Architecture In Helsinki is a fan (there is on song that kinda sounds like the additude of AIH's whole second album.) The boy/girl singing is a definate plus -- reminicant of Mates of State.

It's definately indie pop. The songs are all over the place too, but they feel like an album. For instance, the second song has a clean sounding tambourine with no reverb -- it sounds like they're in the room with you. On the last song the tambourine returns execpt it sounds like it's in the next room this time. Very nice production. I would recommend this to anyone who doesn't have an allergic reaction to the word 'cute'.

4 out of 5 stars

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