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THE PERISHERS - LET THERE BE MORNING (NETTWERK) |
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As Scandinavia faces the sun this summer, Swedes should get their fill of night and day sunshine. So the million dollar question is: how do they sleep? Thanks to Sweden's own The Perishers, the Norsemen will have some help. While it might sound like a slight to any other band it shouldn't be construed as one to the Perishers and their latest album Let There Be Morning. The cover of the CD, released this spring (April), looks like the first scene of a Folgers commercial featuring an encroaching sunrise over hilltops. But wake up music this ain't. Instead Morning is a 10-song collection of sleepy-eyed, well-crafted pop songs that rarely get above a whispered lyric or a mid-tempo backbeat. Upon first listen the songs might all meld together and sound like Sweden's answer to Travis - Scotland's watered-down, "let's all hold hands" version of Radiohead. But the Perishers are one Travis, Coldplay sound-alike that won't be out done by their influences when it comes to lyrics and warm delivery. And no where is that more apparent then in breath-takers such as "Weekends," which opens the album with an ode to nine-to-fivers. How they survive the monotony and yet still get up every day and decide "who they will be," according to singer and guitarist Ola Klu¨ft shows they are the world's real heroes. And for that, Morning deserves a well round of sincere applause. -- review by Wilson Brown
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